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title: The bullet trains connect Taipei with the west coast cities of New T… — Taipei · tree and pragmatics
description: The bullet trains connect Taipei with the west coast cities of New Taipei, Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Taichung, Chiayi, and Tainan before terminating at Zuoying (Kaohsiung) at speeds that cut travel times by 60% or more from what they normally are on a bus or conventional train. Who acts: bullet trains, spee
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# Taipei, sentence 283

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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 bullet trains connect Taipei with the west coast cities of New Taipei, Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Taichung, Chiayi, and Tainan before terminating at Zuoying (Kaohsiung) at speeds that cut travel times by 60% or more from what they normally are on a bus or conventional train.

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**Who acts:** bullet trains, speeds, trains · **What happens:** connect, terminate, cut, be · **To what, where:** Taipei, Zuoying, bus

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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 (bullet trains, speeds, trains), 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:283
# text = The bullet trains connect Taipei with the west coast cities of New Taipei, Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Taichung, Chiayi, and Tainan before terminating at Zuoying (Kaohsiung) at speeds that cut travel times by 60% or more from what they normally are on a bus or conventional train.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bullet	bullet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	trains	train	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	connect	connect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Taipei	Taipei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	west	west	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Taipei	Taipei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Taoyuan	Taoyuan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Hsinchu	Hsinchu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Taichung	Taichung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Chiayi	Chiayi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	Tainan	Tainan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
25	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	terminating	terminate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Zuoying	Zuoying	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Kaohsiung	Kaohsiung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	speeds	speed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	cut	cut	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	travel	travel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
41	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	conj	_	_
43	from	from	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	42	obl	_	_
45	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
46	normally	normally	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
47	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
48	on	on	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	acl:relcl	_	_
51	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	conventional	conventional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **connect** | present | the bullet trains | Taipei |  |  |  | with the west coast cities of New Taipei and Taoyuan and Hsinchu and Taichung and Chiayi and Tainan | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent taipei=Patient with city=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **terminate** | gerund | the bullet trains *not said here* |  |  | Zuoying |  | at speeds | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **cut** | present | speeds |  |  |  | time |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | present | trains *= train* |  |  | a bus or conventional train |  | conventional train *conj*; normally *property* | 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, «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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