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title: Another significant public health issue is smoking among Japanese men. — Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Another significant public health issue is smoking among Japanese men. Who acts: significant public health issue. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Japan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Japan, sentence 359

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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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Another significant public health issue is smoking among Japanese men.

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**Who acts:** significant public health issue · **What happens:** smoke

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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 (significant public health issue), 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:359
# text = Another significant public health issue is smoking among Japanese men.
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
2	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	issue	issue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	smoking	smoke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	among	among	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smoke** | present · progressive | another significant public health issue |  |  |  |  | among Japanese men | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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