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title: During the Second World War, the island was developed into a naval a… — Taiwan · tree and pragmatics
description: During the Second World War, the island was developed into a naval and air base while its agriculture, industry, and commerce suffered. Who acts: commerce. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Taiwan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Taiwan, sentence 157

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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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During the Second World War, the island was developed into a naval and air base while its agriculture, industry, and commerce suffered.

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**Who acts:** commerce · **What happens:** develop, suffer · **To what, where:** island, naval

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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 (commerce), 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:157
# text = During the Second World War, the island was developed into a naval and air base while its agriculture, industry, and commerce suffered.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Second	Second	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
4	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	developed	develop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	naval	naval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	agriculture	agriculture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	industry	industry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	commerce	commerce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **develop** | past · passive |  | the island |  | a naval and air base | during the Second World War | island's agriculture and industry *advcl* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into naval=Product |
| 2 | **suffer** | past | commerce |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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