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title: The oil crisis in 1973 also encouraged the efficient use of energy b… — Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The oil crisis in 1973 also encouraged the efficient use of energy because of Japan's lack of natural resources. Who acts: oil crisis, Japan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Japan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Japan, sentence 140

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From Wikipedia, [«Japan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan), 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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The oil crisis in 1973 also encouraged the efficient use of energy because of Japan's lack of natural resources.

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**Who acts:** oil crisis, Japan · **What happens:** encourage, use, lack · **To what, where:** efficient use, energy, natural resources

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Japan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oil crisis, Japan), 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:Japan:140
# text = The oil crisis in 1973 also encouraged the efficient use of energy because of Japan's lack of natural resources.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	crisis	crisis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1973	1973	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	encouraged	encourage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	efficient	efficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	17	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encourage** | past | the oil crisis in 1973 | the efficient use of energy |  |  |  | because Japan's lack of natural resources | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Theme |
| 2 | **use** |  |  | energy |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **lack** |  | Japan | natural resources |  |  |  |  | nom lack «state transitive»: poss=agent 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, «Japan», 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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