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title: The United States is a major market for Japanese exports and a major… — Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The United States is a major market for Japanese exports and a major source of Japanese imports, and is committed to defending the country, with military bases in Japan. Who acts: United States. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Japan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Japan, sentence 219

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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 United States is a major market for Japanese exports and a major source of Japanese imports, and is committed to defending the country, with military bases in Japan.

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**Who acts:** United States · **What happens:** be, defend · **To what, where:** major market, country

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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 (United States), 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:219
# text = The United States is a major market for Japanese exports and a major source of Japanese imports, and is committed to defending the country, with military bases in Japan.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	exports	export	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	imports	import	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	committed	committed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	defending	defend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	bases	basis	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the United States | a major market |  |  |  | for Japanese exports and a major source of Japanese imports | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | committed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **defend** | gerund |  | the country |  |  |  | with military bases in Japan | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Beneficiary |

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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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