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title: This process accelerated in the 1930s, spawning several radical nati… — Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: This process accelerated in the 1930s, spawning several radical nationalist groups that shared a hostility to liberal democracy and a dedication to expansion in Asia. Who acts: process, several radical nationalist groups. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Japan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Japan, sentence 83

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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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This process accelerated in the 1930s, spawning several radical nationalist groups that shared a hostility to liberal democracy and a dedication to expansion in Asia.

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**Who acts:** process, several radical nationalist groups · **What happens:** accelerate, spawn, share · **To what, where:** process, 1930s, several radical nationalist groups, hostility

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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 (process, several radical nationalist groups), 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:83
# text = This process accelerated in the 1930s, spawning several radical nationalist groups that shared a hostility to liberal democracy and a dedication to expansion in Asia.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	process	process	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	accelerated	accelerate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	1930s	1930	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	spawning	spawn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
9	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	radical	radical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	nationalist	nationalist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	shared	share	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hostility	hostility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	liberal	liberal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	democracy	democracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	dedication	dedication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	expansion	expansion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accelerate** | participle |  | this process *not said here* |  | the 1930s |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **spawn** | gerund | this process *not said here* | several radical nationalist groups |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Patient |
| 3 | **share** | past | several radical nationalist groups | a hostility |  |  |  | to liberal democracy and a dedication to expansion in Asia | tree rules |

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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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