Taiwan, sentence 98
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.
By 1811, there were more than two million Han settlers in Taiwan, and profitable sugar and rice production industries provided exports to the mainland.
Who acts: million Han settlers, profitable sugar · What happens: be, provide · To what, where: exports, mainland
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 (million Han settlers, profitable sugar), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 1811 | case |
| 2 | 1811 | 1811 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 were | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1811 | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 were | expl |
| 5 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 9 million | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 more | fixed |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 million | compound |
| 9 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 settlers | nummod |
| 10 | Han | Han | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 settlers | compound |
| 11 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 were | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Taiwan | case |
| 13 | Taiwan | Taiwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 settlers | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 provided | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 provided | cc |
| 16 | profitable | profitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sugar | amod |
| 17 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 provided | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 industries | cc |
| 19 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 industries | compound |
| 20 | production | production | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 industries | compound |
| 21 | industries | industry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sugar | conj |
| 22 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 were | conj |
| 23 | exports | export | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 provided | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 mainland | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 mainland | det |
| 26 | mainland | mainland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 provided | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | million Han settlers in Taiwan | there | by 1811 | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by 1811=Location | |||
| 2 | provide | past | profitable sugar and rice production industries | exports | the mainland | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent export=Theme to mainland=Recipient |
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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