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title: World War I allowed Japan, which joined the side of the victorious A… — Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: World War I allowed Japan, which joined the side of the victorious Allies, to capture German possessions in the Pacific and China in 1920. Who acts: I. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Japan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Japan, sentence 81

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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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World War I allowed Japan, which joined the side of the victorious Allies, to capture German possessions in the Pacific and China in 1920.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** allow, join, capture · **To what, where:** World War, Japan, side, German possessions, Pacific

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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 (I), 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:81
# text = World War I allowed Japan, which joined the side of the victorious Allies, to capture German possessions in the Pacific and China in 1920.
1	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	allowed	allow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	victorious	victorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Allies	Ally	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	capture	capture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
18	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	possessions	possession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	1920	1920	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | past | I | World War | Japan |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent japan=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **join** | past |  | the side of the victorious Allies |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient |
| 3 | **capture** | to-infinitive |  | German possessions |  | the Pacific and China |  | in 1920 | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=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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