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title: The Han and Indigenous populations were classified as second- and th… — Taiwan · tree and pragmatics
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# Taiwan, sentence 148

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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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The Han and Indigenous populations were classified as second- and third-class citizens, and many prestigious government and business positions were closed to them.

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**What happens:** classify, close · **To what, where:** Han, many prestigious government

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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: 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:148
# text = The Han and Indigenous populations were classified as second- and third-class citizens, and many prestigious government and business positions were closed to them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Han	Han	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	Indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	populations	population	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	classified	classify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
9	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	prestigious	prestigious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	positions	position	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **classify** | past · passive |  | the Han and Indigenous populations |  |  |  | as second class citizens | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as citizen=Attribute |
| 2 | **close** | past · passive |  | many prestigious government and business positions | Han |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Patient to they=Recipient |

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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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