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title: The early 20th century saw a period of Taishō democracy (1912–1926)… — Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The early 20th century saw a period of Taishō democracy (1912–1926) overshadowed by increasing expansionism and militarization. Who acts: early 20th century. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Japan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Japan, sentence 80

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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 early 20th century saw a period of Taishō democracy (1912–1926) overshadowed by increasing expansionism and militarization.

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**Who acts:** early 20th century · **What happens:** see, overshadow, increase · **To what, where:** period, expansionism

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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 (early 20th century), 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:80
# text = The early 20th century saw a period of Taishō democracy (1912–1926) overshadowed by increasing expansionism and militarization.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Taishō	Taishō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	democracy	democracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	1912	1912	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	1926	1926	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
16	overshadowed	overshadow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
17	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	increasing	increase	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	expansionism	expansionism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	militarization	militarization	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the early 20th century | a period of Taishō democracy |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer period=Stimulus |
| 2 | **overshadow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **increase** | gerund |  | expansionism and militarization |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer expansionism=Patient |

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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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