Taiwan, sentence 171
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While initially enthusiastic about the return of Chinese administration and the Three Principles of the People, Formosans grew increasingly dissatisfied about being excluded from higher positions, the postponement of local elections even after the enactment of a constitution on the mainland, the smuggling of valuables off the island, the expropriation of businesses into government-operated monopolies, and the hyperinflation of 1945–1949.
Who acts: Formosans, Chinese administration · What happens: grow, exclude, operate, return, enact, smuggle · To what, where: postponement, operated monopolies, higher positions, constitution, valuables, businesses
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 (Formosans, Chinese administration), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 enthusiastic | mark |
| 2 | initially | initially | ADV | _ | 3 enthusiastic | advmod |
| 3 | enthusiastic | enthusiastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 return | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 return | det |
| 6 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 enthusiastic | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 administration | case |
| 8 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 administration | amod |
| 9 | administration | administration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 return | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Principles | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Principles | det |
| 12 | Three | Three | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Principles | compound |
| 13 | Principles | Principle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 return | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 People | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 People | det |
| 16 | People | People | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 Principles | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 grew | punct |
| 18 | Formosans | Formosan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 grew | nsubj |
| 19 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 enthusiastic | conj |
| 20 | increasingly | increasingly | ADV | _ | 21 dissatisfied | advmod |
| 21 | dissatisfied | dissatisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 grew | xcomp |
| 22 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 24 excluded | mark |
| 23 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 excluded | aux:pass |
| 24 | excluded | exclude | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 dissatisfied | advcl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 positions | case |
| 26 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 positions | amod |
| 27 | positions | position | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 excluded | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 postponement | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 postponement | det |
| 30 | postponement | postponement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grew | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 elections | case |
| 32 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 elections | amod |
| 33 | elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 postponement | nmod |
| 34 | even | even | ADV | _ | 37 enactment | advmod |
| 35 | after | after | ADP | _ | 37 enactment | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 enactment | det |
| 37 | enactment | enactment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 elections | nmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 constitution | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 constitution | det |
| 40 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 enactment | nmod |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 mainland | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 mainland | det |
| 43 | mainland | mainland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 constitution | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 smuggling | punct |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 smuggling | det |
| 46 | smuggling | smuggling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 enactment | conj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 valuables | case |
| 48 | valuables | valuable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 smuggling | nmod |
| 49 | off | off | ADP | _ | 51 island | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 island | det |
| 51 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 valuables | nmod |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 expropriation | punct |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 expropriation | det |
| 54 | expropriation | expropriation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 enactment | conj |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 businesses | case |
| 56 | businesses | business | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 expropriation | nmod |
| 57 | into | into | ADP | _ | 61 monopolies | case |
| 58 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 operated | compound |
| 59 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 58 government | punct |
| 60 | operated | operate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 61 monopolies | amod |
| 61 | monopolies | monopoly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 grew | obl |
| 62 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 65 hyperinflation | punct |
| 63 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 65 hyperinflation | cc |
| 64 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 65 hyperinflation | det |
| 65 | hyperinflation | hyperinflation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 enthusiastic | conj |
| 66 | of | of | ADP | _ | 67 1945 | case |
| 67 | 1945 | 1945 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 65 hyperinflation | nmod |
| 68 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 69 1949 | case |
| 69 | 1949 | 1949 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 67 1945 | nmod |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 enthusiastic | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Formosans | the postponement of local elections after the enactment of a constitution on the mainland and the smuggling of valuables off the island and the expropriation of businesses | into operated monopolies result; dissatisfied property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into monopoly=Result | |||
| 2 | exclude | gerund · passive | Formosans not said here | higher positions | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: from position=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | operate | participle | government compound | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | return | Chinese administration | nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | enact | a constitution on the mainland | nom enactment «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | smuggle | valuables off the island | nom smuggling «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | expropriate | businesses | nom expropriation «act 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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Taiwan», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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