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title: In the early Heian period, the system of phonograms known as kana (h… — Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: In the early Heian period, the system of phonograms known as kana (hiragana and katakana) was developed. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Japan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Japan, sentence 374

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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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In the early Heian period, the system of phonograms known as kana (hiragana and katakana) was developed.

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**What happens:** know, develop · **To what, where:** phonograms, system, early Heian period

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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: 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:374
# text = In the early Heian period, the system of phonograms known as kana (hiragana and katakana) was developed.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Heian	heian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	phonograms	phonogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	kana	kana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	hiragana	hiragana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	katakana	katakana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	developed	develop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  | phonograms *not said here* |  |  |  | as kana | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as kana=Attribute |
| 2 | **develop** | past · passive |  | the system of phonograms |  | the early Heian period |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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