Taiwan, sentence 503
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.
Mandarin is the primary language used in business and education, and is spoken by the vast majority of the population.
Who acts: Mandarin, vast majority · What happens: be, use, speak · To what, where: primary language, business · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Mandarin, vast majority), 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 | Mandarin | Mandarin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 language | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 language | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 language | det |
| 4 | primary | primary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 language | amod |
| 5 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 language | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 business | case |
| 8 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 used | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 education | cc |
| 10 | education | education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 business | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spoken | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 spoken | cc |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 spoken | aux:pass |
| 14 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 language | parataxis |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 majority | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 majority | det |
| 17 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 majority | amod |
| 18 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spoken | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 population | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 population | det |
| 21 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 majority | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 language | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Mandarin | the primary language | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | participle | the primary language not said here | business and education | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | present · passive | the vast majority of the population | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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.
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