Taiwan, sentence 85
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.
Following the fall of the Ming dynasty in Beijing in 1644, Koxinga (Zheng Chenggong) pledged allegiance to the Yongli Emperor and attacked the Qing dynasty along the southeastern coast of China.
Who acts: Koxinga · What happens: follow, pledge, attack · To what, where: allegiance, Yongli Emperor, Qing dynasty
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 (Koxinga), 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 | Following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 fall | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fall | det |
| 3 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pledged | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 dynasty | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dynasty | det |
| 6 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dynasty | compound |
| 7 | dynasty | dynasty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fall | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Beijing | case |
| 9 | Beijing | Beijing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dynasty | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1644 | case |
| 11 | 1644 | 1644 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 dynasty | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Koxinga | punct |
| 13 | Koxinga | Koxinga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 pledged | nsubj |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 Zheng | punct |
| 15 | Zheng | Zheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Koxinga | appos |
| 16 | Chenggong | Chenggong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Zheng | flat |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 Zheng | punct |
| 18 | pledged | pledge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | allegiance | allegiance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pledged | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Emperor | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Emperor | det |
| 22 | Yongli | Yongli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Emperor | compound |
| 23 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 pledged | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 attacked | cc |
| 25 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 pledged | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 dynasty | det |
| 27 | Qing | Qing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 dynasty | compound |
| 28 | dynasty | dynasty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 attacked | obj |
| 29 | along | along | ADP | _ | 32 coast | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 coast | det |
| 31 | southeastern | southeastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 coast | amod |
| 32 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 attacked | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 China | case |
| 34 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 coast | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 pledged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | pledge | past | Koxinga | allegiance | the Yongli Emperor | follow the fall of the Ming dynasty in Beijing in 1644 | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent allegiance=Theme to emperor=Goal | ||
| 3 | attack | past | Koxinga not said here | the Qing dynasty | along the southeastern coast of China | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dynasty=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.
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