Taipei, sentence 96
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 population loss, while rapid in its early years, was slowed by lower density development and campaigns designed to increase the birthrate in the city in the 2010s.
Who acts: lower density development · What happens: slow, design, increase · To what, where: population loss, campaigns, birthrate, city
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 (lower density development), 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 loss | det |
| 2 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loss | compound |
| 3 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slowed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rapid | punct |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 rapid | mark |
| 6 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 loss | amod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 years | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 years | nmod:poss |
| 9 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 years | amod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rapid | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 loss | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 slowed | aux:pass |
| 13 | slowed | slow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 development | case |
| 15 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 development | amod |
| 16 | density | density | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 development | compound |
| 17 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slowed | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 campaigns | cc |
| 19 | campaigns | campaign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 development | conj |
| 20 | designed | design | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 campaigns | acl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 increase | mark |
| 22 | increase | increase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 designed | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 birthrate | det |
| 24 | birthrate | birthrate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 increase | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 city | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 city | det |
| 27 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 increase | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 2010s | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 2010s | det |
| 30 | 2010s | 2010 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 27 city | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 slowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slow | past · passive | lower density development and campaigns | the population loss | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | design | participle | campaigns not said here | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | increase | to-infinitive | the birthrate | the city in the 2010s | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer birthrate=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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