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title: On 25 May 1895, a group of pro-Qing high officials proclaimed the Re… — Taiwan · tree and pragmatics
description: On 25 May 1895, a group of pro-Qing high officials proclaimed the Republic of Formosa to resist impending Japanese rule. Who acts: group. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Taiwan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Taiwan, sentence 139

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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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On 25 May 1895, a group of pro-Qing high officials proclaimed the Republic of Formosa to resist impending Japanese rule.

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**Who acts:** group · **What happens:** proclaim, resist, impend · **To what, where:** Republic, 25, Japanese rule

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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 (group), 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:139
# text = On 25 May 1895, a group of pro-Qing high officials proclaimed the Republic of Formosa to resist impending Japanese rule.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
3	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	1895	1895	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	pro-Qing	pro-qing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Formosa	Formosa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	resist	resist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
19	impending	impend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	xcomp	_	_
20	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **proclaim** | past | a group of pro-Qing high officials | the Republic of Formosa |  | 25 |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent republic=Theme |
| 2 | **resist** | to-infinitive | a group of pro-Qing high officials *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **impend** | gerund | a group of pro-Qing high officials *not said here* | Japanese rule |  |  |  |  | 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, «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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