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title: The KMT-led national government that fled to Taiwan declared Taipei… — Taipei · tree and pragmatics
description: The KMT-led national government that fled to Taiwan declared Taipei to be the provisional capital of a continuing Republic of China. Who acts: led national government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Taipei» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Taipei, sentence 62

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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 KMT-led national government that fled to Taiwan declared Taipei to be the provisional capital of a continuing Republic of China.

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**Who acts:** led national government · **What happens:** lead, flee, declare, be, continue · **To what, where:** KMT, Taiwan, Taipei, provisional 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: who acts (led national government), 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:62
# text = The KMT-led national government that fled to Taiwan declared Taipei to be the provisional capital of a continuing Republic of China.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	KMT	KMT	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
5	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Taipei	Taipei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	provisional	provisional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	continuing	continue	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
21	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | participle |  | KMT |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **flee** | past | the led national government |  |  | Taiwan |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to taiwan=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the led national government | Taipei |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taipei=Attribute |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the led national government *not said here* | the provisional capital |  |  |  | of a continuing Republic of China | tree rules |
| 5 | **continue** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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