Taipei, sentence 283
From Wikipedia, «Taipei», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The bullet trains connect Taipei with the west coast cities of New Taipei, Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Taichung, Chiayi, and Tainan before terminating at Zuoying (Kaohsiung) at speeds that cut travel times by 60% or more from what they normally are on a bus or conventional train.
Who acts: bullet trains, speeds, trains · What happens: connect, terminate, cut, be · To what, where: Taipei, Zuoying, bus
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Taipei». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bullet trains, speeds, trains), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 trains | det |
| 2 | bullet | bullet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trains | compound |
| 3 | trains | train | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 connect | nsubj |
| 4 | connect | connect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Taipei | Taipei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 connect | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 cities | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cities | det |
| 8 | west | west | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cities | amod |
| 9 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cities | compound |
| 10 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 connect | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Taipei | case |
| 12 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Taipei | amod |
| 13 | Taipei | Taipei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cities | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Taoyuan | punct |
| 15 | Taoyuan | Taoyuan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Taipei | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Hsinchu | punct |
| 17 | Hsinchu | Hsinchu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Taipei | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Taichung | punct |
| 19 | Taichung | Taichung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Taipei | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Chiayi | punct |
| 21 | Chiayi | Chiayi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Taipei | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Tainan | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Tainan | cc |
| 24 | Tainan | Tainan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Taipei | conj |
| 25 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 26 terminating | mark |
| 26 | terminating | terminate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 connect | advcl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 Zuoying | case |
| 28 | Zuoying | Zuoying | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 terminating | obl |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 Kaohsiung | punct |
| 30 | Kaohsiung | Kaohsiung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Zuoying | appos |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 Kaohsiung | punct |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 speeds | case |
| 33 | speeds | speed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 terminating | obl |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 cut | nsubj |
| 35 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 speeds | acl:relcl |
| 36 | travel | travel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 times | compound |
| 37 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 cut | obj |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 40 % | case |
| 39 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 % | nummod |
| 40 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 35 cut | obl |
| 41 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 42 more | cc |
| 42 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 40 % | conj |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 what | case |
| 44 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 more | obl |
| 45 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 bus | nsubj |
| 46 | normally | normally | ADV | _ | 50 bus | advmod |
| 47 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 bus | cop |
| 48 | on | on | ADP | _ | 50 bus | case |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 bus | det |
| 50 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 what | acl:relcl |
| 51 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 53 train | cc |
| 52 | conventional | conventional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 train | amod |
| 53 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 bus | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 connect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | connect | present | the bullet trains | Taipei | with the west coast cities of New Taipei and Taoyuan and Hsinchu and Taichung and Chiayi and Tainan | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent taipei=Patient with city=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | terminate | gerund | the bullet trains not said here | Zuoying | at speeds | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | cut | present | speeds | time | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is | present | trains = train | a bus or conventional train | conventional train conj; normally property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Taipei», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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