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title: Although China is among the United States' largest trade partners, t… — China · tree and pragmatics
description: Although China is among the United States' largest trade partners, their relationship is tempered by a trade war and disagreements over the political status of Taiwan. Who acts: China, trade war. A sentence of Wikipedia's «China» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# China, sentence 212

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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 is among the United States' largest trade partners, their relationship is tempered by a trade war and disagreements over the political status of Taiwan.

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**Who acts:** China, trade war · **What happens:** be, temper · **To what, where:** relationship, political status

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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, trade war), 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:212
# text = Although China is among the United States' largest trade partners, their relationship is tempered by a trade war and disagreements over the political status of Taiwan.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	among	among	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
10	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	partners	partner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	relationship	relationship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	tempered	temper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	disagreements	disagreement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	status	status	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | China |  |  |  |  | among the United States; largest trade partners *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **temper** | present · passive | a trade war and disagreements | states's relationship |  | the political status of Taiwan |  |  | 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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