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title: Over 2,000 women, euphemistically called "comfort women", were force… — Taiwan · tree and pragmatics
description: Over 2,000 women, euphemistically called "comfort women", were forced into sexual slavery for Imperial Japanese troops. Who acts: 2,000 women. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Taiwan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Taiwan, sentence 163

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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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Over 2,000 women, euphemistically called "comfort women", were forced into sexual slavery for Imperial Japanese troops.

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**Who acts:** 2,000 women · **What happens:** call, force · **To what, where:** comfort women, 2,000 women, sexual slavery · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (2,000 women), 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:163
# text = Over 2,000 women, euphemistically called "comfort women", were forced into sexual slavery for Imperial Japanese troops.
1	Over	over	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	2,000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	euphemistically	euphemistically	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	sexual	sexual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	Imperial	imperial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle | 2,000 women *not said here* | comfort women |  |  |  | euphemistically *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **force** | past · passive |  | 2,000 women |  | sexual slavery |  | for Imperial Japanese troops | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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