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title: Chinese governance is characterized by a high degree of political ce… — China · tree and pragmatics
description: Chinese governance is characterized by a high degree of political centralization but significant economic decentralization. Who acts: high degree. A sentence of Wikipedia's «China» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# China, sentence 178

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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 governance is characterized by a high degree of political centralization but significant economic decentralization.

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**Who acts:** high degree · **What happens:** characterize · **To what, where:** Chinese governance

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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 (high degree), 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:178
# text = Chinese governance is characterized by a high degree of political centralization but significant economic decentralization.
1	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	governance	governance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	characterized	characterize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	centralization	centralization	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	decentralization	decentralization	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **characterize** | present · passive | a high degree of political centralization but significant economic decentralization | Chinese governance |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

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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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