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title: Chinese civilization was traditionally centered in the lowlands arou… — China · tree and pragmatics
description: Chinese civilization was traditionally centered in the lowlands around China's two longest rivers: the Yangtze and the Yellow River, both originating on the Tibetan Plateau. Who acts: both. A sentence of Wikipedia's «China» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# China, sentence 123

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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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Chinese civilization was traditionally centered in the lowlands around China's two longest rivers: the Yangtze and the Yellow River, both originating on the Tibetan Plateau.

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**Who acts:** both · **What happens:** center, originate · **To what, where:** Chinese civilization, lowlands, Yangtze, Tibetan Plateau

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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 (both), 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:123
# text = Chinese civilization was traditionally centered in the lowlands around China's two longest rivers: the Yangtze and the Yellow River, both originating on the Tibetan Plateau.
1	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	civilization	civilization	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	traditionally	traditionally	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	centered	center	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lowlands	lowland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	around	around	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Yangtze	Yangtze	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	nsubj	_	_
24	originating	originate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	acl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Tibetan	Tibetan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Plateau	Plateau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **center** | past · passive |  | Chinese civilization |  | the lowlands |  | around China's two longest rivers; traditionally *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **originate** | gerund | both | the Yangtze and the Yellow River *not said here* |  | the Tibetan Plateau |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yangtze=Patient |

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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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