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title: Writer Tao Lin's 2013 novel is titled Taipei and takes place in both… — Taipei · tree and pragmatics
description: Writer Tao Lin's 2013 novel is titled Taipei and takes place in both New York City and Taipei, where the protagonist Paul's parents were born and live. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Taipei» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Taipei, sentence 423

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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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Writer Tao Lin's 2013 novel is titled Taipei and takes place in both New York City and Taipei, where the protagonist Paul's parents were born and live.

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**What happens:** title, take, bear, live · **To what, where:** Writer, place, York City, protagonist

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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:423
# text = Writer Tao Lin's 2013 novel is titled Taipei and takes place in both New York City and Taipei, where the protagonist Paul's parents were born and live.
1	Writer	writer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	Tao	Tao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
3	Lin	Lin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
5	2013	2013	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	novel	novel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	titled	title	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	Taipei	Taipei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
15	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
16	York	York	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Taipei	Taipei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	parataxis	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **title** | present · passive |  | Writer  Tao's 2013 novel |  |  |  | Taipei *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | present |  | place |  | both York City and Taipei |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in city=Location |
| 3 | **bear** | past · passive |  | the protagonist |  |  |  | Paul's parents *nsubj:pass* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **live** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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, «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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