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title: It was formerly established as Taipeh-fu and was the temporary capit… — Taipei · tree and pragmatics
description: It was formerly established as Taipeh-fu and was the temporary capital of the island in 1887 when it was declared a province (Fukien-Taiwan Province). A sentence of Wikipedia's «Taipei» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Taipei, sentence 26

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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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It was formerly established as Taipeh-fu and was the temporary capital of the island in 1887 when it was declared a province (Fukien-Taiwan Province).

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**What happens:** establish, be, declare · **To what, where:** part, temporary capital

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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: 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:26
# text = It was formerly established as Taipeh-fu and was the temporary capital of the island in 1887 when it was declared a province (Fukien-Taiwan Province).
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	formerly	formerly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Taipeh	Taipeh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	fu	fu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	temporary	temporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1887	1887	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nmod	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	declared	declare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	province	province	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Fukien	Fukien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
29	Province	Province	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | past · passive |  | part |  |  |  | as Taipeh fu; formerly *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the temporary capital |  |  |  | of the island in 1887 | tree rules |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | part |  |  |  | a province *obj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme province=Attribute |

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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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