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title: Although China moderated its relations with the West during the refo… — China · tree and pragmatics
description: Although China moderated its relations with the West during the reform era, its rise in power has brought political tensions with many of its neighbors and with the United States, the current dominant superpower. Who acts: China, culture. A sentence of Wikipedia's «China» with its dependency tree an
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# China, sentence 211

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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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Although China moderated its relations with the West during the reform era, its rise in power has brought political tensions with many of its neighbors and with the United States, the current dominant superpower.

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**Who acts:** China, culture · **What happens:** moderate, bring, rise · **To what, where:** relations, rise, power

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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, culture), 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:211
# text = Although China moderated its relations with the West during the reform era, its rise in power has brought political tensions with many of its neighbors and with the United States, the current dominant superpower.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	moderated	moderate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	during	during	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	reform	reform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
20	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	tensions	tension	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	current	current	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	dominant	dominant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	superpower	superpower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **moderate** | past | China | culture's relations |  |  |  | with the West | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent relation=Patient with west=Instrument |
| 2 | **bring** | present · perfect · passive |  | culture's rise in power |  |  | during the reform era | with culture's many neighbors and the current dominant superpower with the United States; political tensions *obj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination tension=Theme |
| 3 | **rise** |  | culture |  |  | power |  |  | nom rise «event intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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