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Taiwan, sentence 427

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 24 May 2017, the Constitutional Court ruled that then-current marriage laws had been violating the Constitution by denying same-sex couples the right to marry.

Who acts: Constitutional Court, current marriage laws, violating · What happens: rule, violate, deny, couple, marry · To what, where: Constitution, same sex, right

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 (Constitutional Court, current marriage laws, violating), 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

casenummodoblflatpunctdetcompoundnsubjmarkadvmodpunctamodcompoundnsubjauxauxcsubjdetobjmarkadvclamodpunctobjparataxisdetobjmarkaclpunctrootOnADP24NUMMayPROPN2017NUM,PUNCTtheDETConstitutionalPROPNCourtPROPNruledVERBthatSCONJthenADV-PUNCTcurrentADJmarriageNOUNlawsNOUNhadAUXbeenAUXviolatingVERBtheDETConstitutionNOUNbySCONJdenyingVERBsameADJ-PUNCTsexNOUNcouplesVERBtheDETrightNOUNtoPARTmarryVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OnonADP_3 Maycase
22424NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card3 Maynummod
3MayMayPROPNNumber=Sing9 ruledobl
420172017NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card3 Mayflat
5,,PUNCT_3 Maypunct
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 Courtdet
7ConstitutionalConstitutionalPROPNNumber=Sing8 Courtcompound
8CourtCourtPROPNNumber=Sing9 rulednsubj
9ruledruleVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10thatthatSCONJ_18 violatingmark
11thenthenADVPronType=Dem13 currentadvmod
12--PUNCT_11 thenpunct
13currentcurrentADJDegree=Pos15 lawsamod
14marriagemarriageNOUNNumber=Sing15 lawscompound
15lawslawNOUNNumber=Plur18 violatingnsubj
16hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 violatingaux
17beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part18 violatingaux
18violatingviolateVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part26 couplescsubj
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 Constitutiondet
20ConstitutionconstitutionNOUNNumber=Sing18 violatingobj
21bybySCONJ_22 denyingmark
22denyingdenyVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part18 violatingadvcl
23samesameADJDegree=Pos25 sexamod
24--PUNCT_23 samepunct
25sexsexNOUNNumber=Sing22 denyingobj
26couplescoupleVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 ruledparataxis
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 rightdet
28rightrightNOUNNumber=Sing26 couplesobj
29totoPART_30 marrymark
30marrymarryVERBVerbForm=Inf28 rightacl
31..PUNCT_9 ruledpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1rulepastthe Constitutional Courtmayvn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2violatepast · perfect · progressivecurrent marriage lawsthe Constitutiontree rules
3denygerundcurrent marriage laws not said heresame sexvn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent sex=Eventuality
4couplepresentviolatingthe rightvn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient
5marryto-infinitiveviolating not said herethe right not said herevn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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