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title: The Floral Expo was the first of its kind to take place in Taiwan an… — Taipei · tree and pragmatics
description: The Floral Expo was the first of its kind to take place in Taiwan and only the seventh hosted in Asia; the expo admitted 110,000 visitors on 27 February 2011. Who acts: Floral Expo, expo. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Taipei» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Taipei, sentence 224

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From Wikipedia, [«Taipei»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipei), 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 Floral Expo was the first of its kind to take place in Taiwan and only the seventh hosted in Asia; the expo admitted 110,000 visitors on 27 February 2011.

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**Who acts:** Floral Expo, expo · **What happens:** be, take, host, admit · **To what, where:** first, place, Taiwan, seventh, 110,000 visitors, 27

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Taipei». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Floral Expo, expo), 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:Taipei:224
# text = The Floral Expo was the first of its kind to take place in Taiwan and only the seventh hosted in Asia; the expo admitted 110,000 visitors on 27 February 2011.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Floral	floral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Expo	Expo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	first	first	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	seventh	seventh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	hosted	host	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	expo	expo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	admitted	admit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
26	110,000	110,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	27	27	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	obl	_	_
30	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:unmarked	_	_
31	2011	2011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the Floral Expo | the first |  |  |  | of Expo's kind | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | the Floral Expo *not said here* | place |  | Taiwan and the seventh |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in taiwan=Location |
| 3 | **host** | participle |  | the seventh *not said here* |  |  |  | Asia *obl:agent* | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **admit** *speech: other* | past | the expo | 110,000 visitors |  | 27  February |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent visitor=Theme on 27=Location |

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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, «Taipei», 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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