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title: The figures below are from the 2020 census and are only estimates of… — China · tree and pragmatics
description: The figures below are from the 2020 census and are only estimates of the urban populations within administrative city limits; a different ranking exists for total municipal populations. Who acts: figures, different ranking. A sentence of Wikipedia's «China» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# China, sentence 318

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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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The figures below are from the 2020 census and are only estimates of the urban populations within administrative city limits; a different ranking exists for total municipal populations.

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**Who acts:** figures, different ranking · **What happens:** be, exist · **To what, where:** 2020 census, only estimates

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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 (figures, different ranking), 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:318
# text = The figures below are from the 2020 census and are only estimates of the urban populations within administrative city limits; a different ranking exists for total municipal populations.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	below	below	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	census	census	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	estimates	estimate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	populations	population	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	within	within	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	ranking	ranking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	exists	exist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	municipal	municipal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	populations	population	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the figures |  |  | the 2020 census and only estimates |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the figures *not said here* | only estimates |  |  |  | of the urban populations within administrative city limits | tree rules |
| 3 | **exist** | present | a different ranking |  |  |  |  | for total municipal populations | vn exist-47.1 «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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