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title: "Introduction to Chinese Culture: Cultural History, Arts, Festivals… — China · tree and pragmatics
description: "Introduction to Chinese Culture: Cultural History, Arts, Festivals and Rituals". A sentence of Wikipedia's «China» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# China, sentence 787

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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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"Introduction to Chinese Culture: Cultural History, Arts, Festivals and Rituals".

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**To what, where:** Introduction

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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:787
# text = "Introduction to Chinese Culture: Cultural History, Arts, Festivals and Rituals".
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Introduction	introduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	History	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Arts	art	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Festivals	festival	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Rituals	ritual	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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