Taipei, sentence 423
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.
Writer Tao Lin's 2013 novel is titled Taipei and takes place in both New York City and Taipei, where the protagonist Paul's parents were born and live.
What happens: title, take, bear, live · To what, where: Writer, place, York City, protagonist
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: 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 | Writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 titled | nsubj |
| 2 | Tao | Tao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 novel | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Lin | Lin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Tao | flat |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Tao | case |
| 5 | 2013 | 2013 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 novel | nummod |
| 6 | novel | novel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Writer | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 titled | aux:pass |
| 8 | titled | title | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | Taipei | Taipei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 titled | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 takes | cc |
| 11 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 titled | conj |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 takes | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 City | case |
| 14 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 City | det |
| 15 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 York | flat |
| 16 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 City | compound |
| 17 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 takes | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Taipei | cc |
| 19 | Taipei | Taipei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 City | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 born | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 born | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 protagonist | det |
| 23 | protagonist | protagonist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 born | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 parents | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 Paul | case |
| 26 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 born | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 born | aux:pass |
| 28 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 City | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 live | cc |
| 30 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 born | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 titled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | title | present · passive | Writer Tao's 2013 novel | Taipei obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | present | place | both York City and Taipei | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in city=Location | ||||
| 3 | bear | past · passive | the protagonist | Paul's parents nsubj:pass | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | live | present | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
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