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title: An imperial push for reform in 1898 ended after an internal coup, wh… — China · tree and pragmatics
description: An imperial push for reform in 1898 ended after an internal coup, while the anti-foreign Boxer Rebellion was defeated by a coalition of foreign powers in 1901. Who acts: imperial push, coalition. A sentence of Wikipedia's «China» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# China, sentence 99

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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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An imperial push for reform in 1898 ended after an internal coup, while the anti-foreign Boxer Rebellion was defeated by a coalition of foreign powers in 1901.

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**Who acts:** imperial push, coalition · **What happens:** end, defeat · **To what, where:** anti-foreign, 1901

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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 (imperial push, coalition), 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:99
# text = An imperial push for reform in 1898 ended after an internal coup, while the anti-foreign Boxer Rebellion was defeated by a coalition of foreign powers in 1901.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	imperial	imperial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	push	push	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	reform	reform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1898	1898	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
8	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	internal	internal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	coup	coup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	anti-foreign	anti-foreign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	Boxer	Boxer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	Rebellion	Rebellion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	defeated	defeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	coalition	coalition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	1901	1901	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | past | a imperial push for reform in 1898 |  |  |  | after a internal coup |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **defeat** | past · passive | a coalition of foreign powers | the anti-foreign |  | 1901 |  |  | tree rules |

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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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