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title: China is the second-largest country by land area after Russia, and t… — China · tree and pragmatics
description: China is the second-largest country by land area after Russia, and the third or fourth largest by total area. Who acts: China. A sentence of Wikipedia's «China» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# China, sentence 157

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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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China is the second-largest country by land area after Russia, and the third or fourth largest by total area.

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**Who acts:** China · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** largest country

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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 (China), 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:157
# text = China is the second-largest country by land area after Russia, and the third or fourth largest by total area.
1	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	advmod	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	conj	_	_
19	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	conj	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | China | the largest country |  |  |  | by land area after Russia | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | China *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by total area | tree rules |

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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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