Taiwan, sentence 273
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.
The east and south of Taiwan are a complex system of belts formed by, and part of the zone of, active collision between the North Luzon Trough portion of the Luzon Volcanic Arc and South China, where accreted portions of the Luzon Arc and Luzon forearc form the eastern Coastal Range and parallel inland Longitudinal Valley of Taiwan, respectively.
Who acts: east, part · What happens: be, form, accrete · To what, where: complex system, belts, eastern Coastal Range
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 (east, part), 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 | 2 east | det |
| 2 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 system | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 south | cc |
| 4 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 east | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Taiwan | case |
| 6 | Taiwan | Taiwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 south | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 system | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 system | det |
| 9 | complex | complex | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 system | amod |
| 10 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 belts | case |
| 12 | belts | belt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 system | nmod |
| 13 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 belts | acl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 formed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 part | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 part | cc |
| 17 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 form | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 zone | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 zone | det |
| 20 | zone | zone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 part | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 collision | case |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 collision | punct |
| 23 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 collision | amod |
| 24 | collision | collision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 zone | nmod |
| 25 | between | between | ADP | _ | 30 portion | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 portion | det |
| 27 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Luzon | compound |
| 28 | Luzon | Luzon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Trough | compound |
| 29 | Trough | Trough | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 portion | compound |
| 30 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 collision | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Arc | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Arc | det |
| 33 | Luzon | Luzon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Arc | compound |
| 34 | Volcanic | Volcanic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Arc | compound |
| 35 | Arc | Arc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 portion | nmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 South | cc |
| 37 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Arc | conj |
| 38 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Arc | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 portions | punct |
| 40 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 41 accreted | advmod |
| 41 | accreted | accrete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 portions | amod |
| 42 | portions | portion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 China | conj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 Arc | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Arc | det |
| 45 | Luzon | Luzon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Arc | compound |
| 46 | Arc | Arc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 portions | nmod |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 Luzon | cc |
| 48 | Luzon | Luzon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Arc | conj |
| 49 | forearc | forearc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 Luzon | flat |
| 50 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 system | parataxis |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 Range | det |
| 52 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 Range | amod |
| 53 | Coastal | Coastal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 Range | compound |
| 54 | Range | Range | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 form | obj |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 Valley | cc |
| 56 | parallel | parallel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 Valley | amod |
| 57 | inland | inland | ADV | _ | 59 Valley | advmod |
| 58 | Longitudinal | Longitudinal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 59 Valley | compound |
| 59 | Valley | Valley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 Range | conj |
| 60 | of | of | ADP | _ | 61 Taiwan | case |
| 61 | Taiwan | Taiwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 59 Valley | nmod |
| 62 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 respectively | punct |
| 63 | respectively | respectively | ADV | _ | 54 Range | advmod |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 system | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the east and south of Taiwan | a complex system | of belts | tree rules | |||
| 2 | form | participle | belts not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | accrete | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | form | present | part of the zone of active collision between the Trough portion of the Luzon Volcanic Arc and South and China and accreted portions | the eastern Coastal Range and parallel Longitudinal Valley of Taiwan | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location range=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.
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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