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title: China's population is concentrated in the eastern half of the countr… — China · tree and pragmatics
description: China's population is concentrated in the eastern half of the country; although 64% of China's territory is west of the Heihe–Tengchong Line, as of 2020 only 6.5% of its population lives west of the line. A sentence of Wikipedia's «China» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# China, sentence 304

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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's population is concentrated in the eastern half of the country; although 64% of China's territory is west of the Heihe–Tengchong Line, as of 2020 only 6.5% of its population lives west of the line.

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**What happens:** concentrate, be, live · **To what, where:** population, eastern half

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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: 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:304
# text = China's population is concentrated in the eastern half of the country; although 64% of China's territory is west of the Heihe–Tengchong Line, as of 2020 only 6.5% of its population lives west of the line.
1	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	concentrated	concentrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
15	64	64	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	west	west	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	Heihe	Heihe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	–	–	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Tengchong	Tengchong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Line	Line	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	32	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
32	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	39	obl	_	_
33	only	only	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	6.5	6.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
40	west	west	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **concentrate** | present · passive |  | China's population |  | the eastern half of the country |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of the Heihe Tengchong Line; west *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | present |  |  |  |  |  | as 2020; west *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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