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title: National Shinto religion was promoted in parallel with suppression o… — Taiwan · tree and pragmatics
description: National Shinto religion was promoted in parallel with suppression of traditional Taiwanese beliefs. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Taiwan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Taiwan, sentence 153

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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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National Shinto religion was promoted in parallel with suppression of traditional Taiwanese beliefs.

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**What happens:** promote, suppress · **To what, where:** National religion, parallel, traditional Taiwanese beliefs

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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:153
# text = National Shinto religion was promoted in parallel with suppression of traditional Taiwanese beliefs.
1	National	National	PROPN	NNP	_	3	compound	_	_
2	Shinto	Shinto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	promoted	promote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	parallel	parallel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	suppression	suppression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Taiwanese	Taiwanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	beliefs	belief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promote** | past · passive |  | National religion |  | parallel with suppression of traditional Taiwanese beliefs |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **suppress** |  |  | traditional Taiwanese beliefs |  |  |  |  | nom suppression «process transitive»: of=patient |

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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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