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title: The first version of the name in English appears in a book published… — Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The first version of the name in English appears in a book published in 1577, which spelled the name as Giapan in a translation of a 1565 Portuguese letter. Who acts: first version, 1565 Portuguese letter. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Japan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Japan, sentence 30

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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 first version of the name in English appears in a book published in 1577, which spelled the name as Giapan in a translation of a 1565 Portuguese letter.

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**Who acts:** first version, 1565 Portuguese letter · **What happens:** appear, publish, spell, translate · **To what, where:** book, 1577, translation

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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 (first version, 1565 Portuguese letter), 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:30
# text = The first version of the name in English appears in a book published in 1577, which spelled the name as Giapan in a translation of a 1565 Portuguese letter.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	1577	1577	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	spelled	spell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Giapan	Giapan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	1565	1565	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
29	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | present | the first version of the name in English |  |  | a book |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in book=Location |
| 2 | **publish** | participle |  | a book *not said here* |  | 1577 |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **spell** | participle · passive |  | a book |  | a translation of a 1565 Portuguese letter |  | as Giapan; the name *obj* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme name=Manner |
| 4 | **translate** |  | a 1565 Portuguese letter |  |  |  |  |  | nom translation «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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