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title: During the White Terror, as the period is known, 140,000 people were… — Taiwan · tree and pragmatics
description: During the White Terror, as the period is known, 140,000 people were imprisoned or executed for being perceived as anti-KMT or pro-Communist. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Taiwan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Taiwan, sentence 189

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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 White Terror, as the period is known, 140,000 people were imprisoned or executed for being perceived as anti-KMT or pro-Communist.

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**What happens:** know, imprison, execute, perceive · **To what, where:** period, 140,000 people

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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:189
# text = During the White Terror, as the period is known, 140,000 people were imprisoned or executed for being perceived as anti-KMT or pro-Communist.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Terror	Terror	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	140,000	140,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	executed	execute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	anti-KMT	anti-kmt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	pro-Communist	pro-communist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present · passive |  | the period |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **imprison** | past · passive |  | 140,000 people |  |  | during the White Terror |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **execute** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **perceive** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  | as anti-KMT | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: as anti-kmt=Attribute |

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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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