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title: In 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) proclaimed the PRC and th… — China · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) proclaimed the PRC and the ROC retreated to Taiwan. Who acts: Chinese Communist Party, ROC. A sentence of Wikipedia's «China» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# China, sentence 13

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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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In 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) proclaimed the PRC and the ROC retreated to Taiwan.

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**Who acts:** Chinese Communist Party, ROC · **What happens:** proclaim, retreat · **To what, where:** PRC, 1949, Taiwan

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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 (Chinese Communist Party, ROC), 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:13
# text = In 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) proclaimed the PRC and the ROC retreated to Taiwan.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1949	1949	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Communist	Communist	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Party	Party	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	CCP	CCP	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
11	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	PRC	PRC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ROC	roc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	retreated	retreat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **proclaim** | past | the Chinese Communist Party | the PRC |  | 1949 |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prc=Theme |
| 2 | **retreat** | past | the ROC |  |  | Taiwan |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to taiwan=Initial\_Location |

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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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