Taiwan, sentence 139
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.
On 25 May 1895, a group of pro-Qing high officials proclaimed the Republic of Formosa to resist impending Japanese rule.
Who acts: group · What happens: proclaim, resist, impend · To what, where: Republic, 25, Japanese rule
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: who acts (group), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 25 | case |
| 2 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 proclaimed | obl |
| 3 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 1895 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 1895 | 1895 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 25 | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 25 | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 group | det |
| 7 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 proclaimed | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 officials | case |
| 9 | pro-Qing | pro-qing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 officials | compound |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 officials | amod |
| 11 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 group | nmod |
| 12 | proclaimed | proclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Republic | det |
| 14 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 proclaimed | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Formosa | case |
| 16 | Formosa | Formosa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Republic | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 resist | mark |
| 18 | resist | resist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 proclaimed | advcl |
| 19 | impending | impend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 resist | xcomp |
| 20 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 rule | amod |
| 21 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 impending | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 proclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proclaim | past | a group of pro-Qing high officials | the Republic of Formosa | 25 | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent republic=Theme | |||
| 2 | resist | to-infinitive | a group of pro-Qing high officials not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | impend | gerund | a group of pro-Qing high officials not said here | Japanese rule | tree rules |
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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