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# China, sentence 398

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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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Inspired by Western jazz and boosted by the introduction of recording studios, Mandarin pop music emerged in Shanghai in the 1920s, while the folk rock-inspired Cantopop became popular around Hong Kong during the 1970s.

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**Who acts:** folk · **What happens:** inspire, boost, emerge, become, introduce · **To what, where:** Mandarin pop music, Shanghai, recording studios

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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 (folk), 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:398
# text = Inspired by Western jazz and boosted by the introduction of recording studios, Mandarin pop music emerged in Shanghai in the 1920s, while the folk rock-inspired Cantopop became popular around Hong Kong during the 1970s.
1	Inspired	inspire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	jazz	jazz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	boosted	boost	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	introduction	introduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	recording	recording	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	studios	studio	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	pop	pop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
17	emerged	emerge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Shanghai	Shanghai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	1920s	1920s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
27	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	inspired	inspire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	Cantopop	Cantopop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
31	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
32	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
33	around	around	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Hong	Hong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	Kong	Kong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	_
36	during	during	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	1970s	1970s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inspire** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by Western jazz | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **boost** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the introduction of recording studios and Mandarin pop music | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **emerge** | participle |  | Mandarin pop music *not said here* |  | Shanghai |  | in the 1920s | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shanghai=Location |
| 4 | **inspire** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | rock *compound* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **become** | past | the folk |  |  |  | during the 1970s | popular *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **introduce** |  |  | recording studios |  |  |  |  | nom introduction «act 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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