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title: The west gate and city walls were demolished by the Japanese while t… — Taipei · tree and pragmatics
description: The west gate and city walls were demolished by the Japanese while the south gate, little south gate, and east gate were extensively modified by the Kuomintang and have lost much of their original character. Who acts: Kuomintang. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Taipei» with its dependency tree and pragma
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# Taipei, sentence 47

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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 west gate and city walls were demolished by the Japanese while the south gate, little south gate, and east gate were extensively modified by the Kuomintang and have lost much of their original character.

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**Who acts:** Kuomintang · **What happens:** demolish, modify, lose · **To what, where:** west gate, east gate, much

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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 (Kuomintang), 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:47
# text = The west gate and city walls were demolished by the Japanese while the south gate, little south gate, and east gate were extensively modified by the Kuomintang and have lost much of their original character.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	west	west	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	demolished	demolish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	south	South	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	south	South	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	east	east	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	extensively	extensively	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	modified	modify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Kuomintang	Kuomintang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
33	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **demolish** | past · passive |  | the west gate and city walls |  |  |  | by the Japanese  the south gate and little south gate | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **modify** | past · passive | the Kuomintang | east gate |  |  |  | extensively *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **lose** | present · perfect | the Kuomintang *not said here* | much of walls's original character |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Eventuality |

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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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