--- title: While initially enthusiastic about the return of Chinese administrat… — Taiwan · tree and pragmatics description: While initially enthusiastic about the return of Chinese administration and the Three Principles of the People, Formosans grew increasingly dissatisfied about being excluded from higher positions, the postponement of local elections even after the enactment of a constitution on the mainland, the smu --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Taiwan/171/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Taiwan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Taiwan/) / 171 # Taiwan, sentence 171 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. While initially enthusiastic about the return of Chinese administration and the Three Principles of the People, Formosans grew increasingly dissatisfied about being excluded from higher positions, the postponement of local elections even after the enactment of a constitution on the mainland, the smuggling of valuables off the island, the expropriation of businesses into government-operated monopolies, and the hyperinflation of 1945–1949. **Who acts:** Formosans, Chinese administration · **What happens:** grow, exclude, operate, return, enact, smuggle · **To what, where:** postponement, operated monopolies, higher positions, constitution, valuables, businesses 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 (Formosans, Chinese administration), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:171 # text = While initially enthusiastic about the return of Chinese administration and the Three Principles of the People, Formosans grew increasingly dissatisfied about being excluded from higher positions, the postponement of local elections even after the enactment of a constitution on the mainland, the smuggling of valuables off the island, the expropriation of businesses into government-operated monopolies, and the hyperinflation of 1945–1949. 1 While while SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 initially initially ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 enthusiastic enthusiastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 return return NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 administration administration NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 Three Three PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Principles Principle PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 People People PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 Formosans Formosan PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 increasingly increasingly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 dissatisfied dissatisfied ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 22 about about SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 excluded exclude VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 advcl _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 amod _ _ 27 positions position NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 postponement postponement NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 elections election NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 even even ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 35 after after ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 enactment enactment NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 constitution constitution NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 mainland mainland NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 smuggling smuggling NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 valuables valuable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nmod _ _ 49 off off ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 expropriation expropriation NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 55 of of ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 businesses business NOUN NNS Number=Plur 54 nmod _ _ 57 into into ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 58 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 59 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 58 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 60 operated operate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 61 amod _ _ 61 monopolies monopoly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 63 and and CCONJ CC _ 65 cc _ _ 64 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 65 hyperinflation hyperinflation NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 66 of of ADP IN _ 67 case _ _ 67 1945 1945 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 65 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 68 – – SYM SYM ExtPos=ADP 69 case _ SpaceAfter=No 69 1949 1949 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 67 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 70 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | Formosans | the postponement of local elections after the enactment of a constitution on the mainland and the smuggling of valuables off the island and the expropriation of businesses | | | | into operated monopolies *result*; dissatisfied *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into monopoly=Result | | 2 | **exclude** | gerund · passive | Formosans *not said here* | | | higher positions | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: from position=Eventuality | | 3 | **operate** | participle | | | | | | government *compound* | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **return** | | Chinese administration | | | | | | nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent | | 6 | **enact** | | | a constitution on the mainland | | | | | nom enactment «act transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **smuggle** | | | valuables off the island | | | | | nom smuggling «act transitive»: of=patient | | 8 | **expropriate** | | | businesses | | | | | nom expropriation «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 170](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Taiwan/170/) - next →: [sentence 172](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Taiwan/172/) - ↑ back to [Taiwan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Taiwan/)