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title: Japan is an ethnically and culturally homogeneous society, with the… — Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Japan is an ethnically and culturally homogeneous society, with the Japanese people forming 97.4% of the country's population. Who acts: Japan, Japanese people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Japan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Japan, sentence 316

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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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Japan is an ethnically and culturally homogeneous society, with the Japanese people forming 97.4% of the country's population.

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**Who acts:** Japan, Japanese people · **What happens:** be, form · **To what, where:** homogeneous society

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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 (Japan, Japanese people), 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:316
# text = Japan is an ethnically and culturally homogeneous society, with the Japanese people forming 97.4% of the country's population.
1	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	ethnically	ethnically	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	culturally	culturally	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	homogeneous	homogeneous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
14	forming	form	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	97.4	97.4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Japan | a homogeneous society |  |  |  | with the Japanese people; ethnically *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **form** | gerund | the Japanese people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location %=Theme |

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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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