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title: Japan has two Nobel Prize–winning authors—Yasunari Kawabata (1968) a… — Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Japan has two Nobel Prize–winning authors—Yasunari Kawabata (1968) and Kenzaburō Ōe (1994). Who acts: Japan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Japan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Japan, sentence 381

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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 has two Nobel Prize–winning authors—Yasunari Kawabata (1968) and Kenzaburō Ōe (1994).

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**Who acts:** Japan · **What happens:** have, win · **To what, where:** two Nobel Prize

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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), 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:381
# text = Japan has two Nobel Prize–winning authors—Yasunari Kawabata (1968) and Kenzaburō Ōe (1994).
1	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	Nobel	Nobel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Prize	Prize	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	winning	win	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	authors	author	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Yasunari	Yasunari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Kawabata	Kawabata	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	1968	1968	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Kenzaburō	Kenzaburō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
17	Ōe	Ōe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	1994	1994	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Japan | two Nobel Prize |  |  |  | winning authors  Yasunari Kawabata and Kenzaburō *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **win** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «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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