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title: Pagodas, multi-story religious towers far taller than other forms of… — China · tree and pragmatics
description: Pagodas, multi-story religious towers far taller than other forms of traditional architecture, were introduced to China alongside Buddhism, and comprise many of China's oldest buildings. A sentence of Wikipedia's «China» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# China, sentence 391

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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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Pagodas, multi-story religious towers far taller than other forms of traditional architecture, were introduced to China alongside Buddhism, and comprise many of China's oldest buildings.

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**What happens:** introduce, comprise, form · **To what, where:** China, many, traditional architecture

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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:391
# text = Pagodas, multi-story religious towers far taller than other forms of traditional architecture, were introduced to China alongside Buddhism, and comprise many of China's oldest buildings.
1	Pagodas	pagoda	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	multi-story	multi-story	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	architecture	architecture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	alongside	alongside	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Buddhism	Buddhism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	comprise	comprise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
29	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **introduce** | past · passive |  |  | China |  |  | alongside Buddhism | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: to china=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **comprise** | infinitive |  | many of China's oldest buildings |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme many=Pivot |
| 4 | **form** |  |  | traditional architecture |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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