Taiwan, sentence 236
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.
State-run companies began dropping "China" references in their names and including "Taiwan".
Who acts: run companies, references · What happens: begin, drop, name · To what, where: China references, names
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 (run companies, references), 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 | State | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 run | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| 3 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 companies | compound |
| 4 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | dropping | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 began | xcomp |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 China | punct |
| 8 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 references | compound |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 China | punct |
| 10 | references | reference | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dropping | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 names | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 names | nmod:poss |
| 13 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dropping | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 including | cc |
| 15 | including | including | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 names | conj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Taiwan | punct |
| 17 | Taiwan | Taiwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 including | appos |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Taiwan | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | run companies | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | drop | gerund | run companies not said here | China references | references's names and including | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent reference=Theme in name=Destination | |||
| 3 | name | references = reference | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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