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title: Chinese Buddhists have developed a unique cuisine that avoids meat,… — China · tree and pragmatics
description: Chinese Buddhists have developed a unique cuisine that avoids meat, while Chinese Islamic cuisine excludes pork and alcohol. Who acts: unique cuisine, Chinese Islamic cuisine. A sentence of Wikipedia's «China» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# China, sentence 418

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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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Chinese Buddhists have developed a unique cuisine that avoids meat, while Chinese Islamic cuisine excludes pork and alcohol.

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**Who acts:** unique cuisine, Chinese Islamic cuisine · **What happens:** develop, avoid, exclude · **To what, where:** Chinese Buddhists, meat, pork

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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 (unique cuisine, Chinese Islamic cuisine), 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:418
# text = Chinese Buddhists have developed a unique cuisine that avoids meat, while Chinese Islamic cuisine excludes pork and alcohol.
1	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Buddhists	buddhist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	developed	develop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	unique	unique	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cuisine	cuisine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	avoids	avoid	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cuisine	cuisine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	excludes	exclude	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	pork	pork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **develop** | present · perfect · passive |  | Chinese Buddhists |  |  |  | a unique cuisine *obj* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary cuisine=Product |
| 2 | **avoid** | present | a unique cuisine | meat |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent meat=Location |
| 3 | **exclude** | present | Chinese Islamic cuisine | pork and alcohol |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer pork=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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