Taiwan, sentence 109
From Wikipedia, «Taiwan», 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.
Two aboriginal affairs sub-prefects, one for the north and one for the south, were appointed in 1766.
What happens: appoint · To what, where: Two aboriginal affairs sub-prefects, 1766
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Taiwan». 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 sub-prefects | nummod |
| 2 | aboriginal | aboriginal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sub-prefects | amod |
| 3 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sub-prefects | compound |
| 4 | sub-prefects | sub-prefect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 appointed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 sub-prefects | appos |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 north | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 north | det |
| 9 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 one | cc |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 one | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 south | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 south | det |
| 14 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 one | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sub-prefects | punct |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 appointed | aux:pass |
| 17 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 1766 | case |
| 19 | 1766 | 1766 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 appointed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | past · passive | Two aboriginal affairs sub-prefects | 1766 | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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