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title: Various forms of robe served as the main form of clothing for men an… — China · tree and pragmatics
description: Various forms of robe served as the main form of clothing for men and women throughout Chinese history, adapting over the centuries. Who acts: Various forms. A sentence of Wikipedia's «China» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# China, sentence 419

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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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Various forms of robe served as the main form of clothing for men and women throughout Chinese history, adapting over the centuries.

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**Who acts:** Various forms · **What happens:** serve, adapt, form · **To what, where:** Various forms, robe, clothing

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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 (Various forms), 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:419
# text = Various forms of robe served as the main form of clothing for men and women throughout Chinese history, adapting over the centuries.
1	Various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	clothing	clothing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	adapting	adapt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | participle |  | Various forms of robe *not said here* |  |  |  | as the main form of clothing for men throughout Chinese history and women | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as form=Attribute |
| 2 | **adapt** | gerund | Various forms of robe *not said here* |  |  |  | century |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **form** |  |  | robe |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **form** |  |  | clothing for men throughout Chinese history and women |  |  |  |  | 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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