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title: The characters mean, which is the source of the popular Western epit… — Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The characters mean, which is the source of the popular Western epithet "Land of the Rising Sun". Who acts: characters. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Japan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Japan, sentence 26

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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 characters mean, which is the source of the popular Western epithet "Land of the Rising Sun".

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**Who acts:** characters · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** source · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (characters), 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:26
# text = The characters mean, which is the source of the popular Western epithet "Land of the Rising Sun".
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	epithet	epithet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Rising	Rising	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | the characters |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the source |  |  |  | of the popular Western epithet; which *nsubj* | 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, «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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