Taipei, sentence 47

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 west gate and city walls were demolished by the Japanese while the south gate, little south gate, and east gate were extensively modified by the Kuomintang and have lost much of their original character.

Who acts: Kuomintang · What happens: demolish, modify, lose · To what, where: west gate, east gate, much

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 (Kuomintang), 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 gate	det
2	west	west	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gate	amod
3	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 demolished	nsubj:pass
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 walls	cc
5	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walls	compound
6	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gate	conj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 demolished	aux:pass
8	demolished	demolish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 Japanese	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Japanese	det
11	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 demolished	obl
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 gate	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gate	det
14	south	South	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 gate	amod
15	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Japanese	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gate	punct
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 gate	amod
18	south	South	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 gate	amod
19	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gate	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 modified	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 modified	cc
22	east	east	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 gate	amod
23	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 modified	nsubj:pass
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 modified	aux:pass
25	extensively	extensively	ADV	_	26 modified	advmod
26	modified	modify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 demolished	parataxis
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 Kuomintang	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Kuomintang	det
29	Kuomintang	Kuomintang	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 modified	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 lost	cc
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 lost	aux
32	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 modified	conj
33	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lost	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 character	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 character	nmod:poss
36	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 character	amod
37	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 much	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 demolished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	demolish	past · passive		the west gate and city walls	by the Japanese the south gate and little south gate	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	modify	past · passive	the Kuomintang	east gate	extensively property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
3	lose	present · perfect	the Kuomintang not said here	much of walls's original character		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Eventuality

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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Taipei, sentence 47