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title: Deng Xiaoping served as paramount leader from 1978 to 1989. — China · tree and pragmatics
description: Deng Xiaoping served as paramount leader from 1978 to 1989. Who acts: Deng. A sentence of Wikipedia's «China» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# China, sentence 116

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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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Deng Xiaoping served as paramount leader from 1978 to 1989.

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**Who acts:** Deng · **What happens:** serve · **To what, where:** 1978

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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 (Deng), 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:116
# text = Deng Xiaoping served as paramount leader from 1978 to 1989.
1	Deng	Deng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Xiaoping	Xiaoping	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	paramount	paramount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1978	1978	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1989	1989	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | past | Deng |  |  | 1978 to 1989 |  | as paramount leader | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as leader=Attribute |

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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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