Taipei, sentence 60
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.
In 1947 the Kuomintang (KMT) government under Chiang Kai-shek declared island-wide martial law in Taiwan as a result of the 28 February Incident, which began with incidents in Taipei but led to an island-wide crackdown on the local population by forces loyal to Chiang.
Who acts: Kuomintang government, February Incident · What happens: declare, begin, lead, result · To what, where: 1947, local population, February Incident
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 government, February Incident), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1947 | case |
| 2 | 1947 | 1947 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 declared | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 government | det |
| 4 | Kuomintang | Kuomintang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 government | compound |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 KMT | punct |
| 6 | KMT | KMT | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Kuomintang | appos |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 KMT | punct |
| 8 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 declared | nsubj |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 Chiang | case |
| 10 | Chiang | Chiang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 government | nmod |
| 11 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Chiang | flat |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 shek | punct |
| 13 | shek | shek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Chiang | appos |
| 14 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 law | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 island | punct |
| 17 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 law | amod |
| 18 | martial | martial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 law | amod |
| 19 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 declared | ccomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Taiwan | case |
| 21 | Taiwan | Taiwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 law | nmod |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 result | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 result | det |
| 24 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 declared | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Incident | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Incident | det |
| 27 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 February | nummod |
| 28 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Incident | compound |
| 29 | Incident | Incident | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 result | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 began | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 began | nsubj |
| 32 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 Incident | acl:relcl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 incidents | case |
| 34 | incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 began | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 Taipei | case |
| 36 | Taipei | Taipei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 incidents | nmod |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 led | cc |
| 38 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 declared | conj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 crackdown | case |
| 40 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 crackdown | det |
| 41 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 wide | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 island | punct |
| 43 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 crackdown | amod |
| 44 | crackdown | crackdown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 led | obl |
| 45 | on | on | ADP | _ | 48 population | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 population | det |
| 47 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 population | amod |
| 48 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 led | obl |
| 49 | by | by | ADP | _ | 50 forces | case |
| 50 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 led | obl |
| 51 | loyal | loyal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 forces | amod |
| 52 | to | to | ADP | _ | 53 Chiang | case |
| 53 | Chiang | Chiang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 loyal | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | the Kuomintang government under Chiang | 1947 | as a result of the February Incident; island wide martial law in Taiwan ccomp | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent as result=Attribute | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the February Incident | with incidents in Taipei | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with incident=Subeventuality | ||||
| 3 | lead | past | the Kuomintang government under Chiang not said here | the local population | to a wide crackdown; by forces | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to crackdown=Patient | |||
| 4 | result | the February Incident | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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