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title: In October 1944, the Formosa Air Battle was fought between American… — Taiwan · tree and pragmatics
description: In October 1944, the Formosa Air Battle was fought between American carriers and Japanese forces in Taiwan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Taiwan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Taiwan, sentence 161

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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 October 1944, the Formosa Air Battle was fought between American carriers and Japanese forces in Taiwan.

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**What happens:** fight · **To what, where:** Formosa Air Battle, Taiwan

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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:161
# text = In October 1944, the Formosa Air Battle was fought between American carriers and Japanese forces in Taiwan.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
3	1944	1944	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Formosa	Formosa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	Air	Air	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Battle	Battle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	fought	fight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	carriers	carrier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past · passive |  | the Formosa Air Battle |  | Taiwan | october | between American carriers and Japanese forces | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent |

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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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