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title: In 1788, Taiwan Prefect Yang Tingli supported the efforts of a settl… — Taiwan · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1788, Taiwan Prefect Yang Tingli supported the efforts of a settler named Wu Sha to claim land held by the Kavalan people. Who acts: Taiwan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Taiwan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Taiwan, sentence 114

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From Wikipedia, [«Taiwan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan), 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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In 1788, Taiwan Prefect Yang Tingli supported the efforts of a settler named Wu Sha to claim land held by the Kavalan people.

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**Who acts:** Taiwan · **What happens:** support, name, claim, hold · **To what, where:** efforts, 1788, settler, land

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Taiwan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Taiwan), 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:Taiwan:114
# text = In 1788, Taiwan Prefect Yang Tingli supported the efforts of a settler named Wu Sha to claim land held by the Kavalan people.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1788	1788	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	Prefect	Prefect	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	Yang	Yang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	Tingli	Tingli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	supported	support	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	settler	settler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	Wu	Wu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	_
16	Sha	Sha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	claim	claim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
19	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Kavalan	Kavalan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **support** | past | Taiwan and Yang | the efforts of a settler |  | 1788 |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer effort=Stimulus |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | a settler *not said here* |  |  |  | Wu *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **claim** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  | land |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent land=Topic |
| 4 | **hold** | participle |  | land *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Kavalan people | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by people=Location |

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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, «Taiwan», 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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