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title: The ROC government retreated to Taiwan and continued to claim legiti… — China · tree and pragmatics
description: The ROC government retreated to Taiwan and continued to claim legitimacy. Who acts: ROC government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «China» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# China, sentence 107

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From Wikipedia, [«China»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The ROC government retreated to Taiwan and continued to claim legitimacy.

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**Who acts:** ROC government · **What happens:** retreat, continue, claim · **To what, where:** Taiwan, legitimacy

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «China». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ROC government), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:China:107
# text = The ROC government retreated to Taiwan and continued to claim legitimacy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	ROC	roc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	retreated	retreat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	claim	claim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	legitimacy	legitimacy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retreat** | past | the ROC government |  |  | Taiwan |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to taiwan=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **continue** | past | the ROC government *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **claim** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the ROC government *not said here* | legitimacy |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent legitimacy=Topic |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «China», 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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