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title: Although the protest was rapidly crushed by the authorities, it is c… — Taiwan · tree and pragmatics
description: Although the protest was rapidly crushed by the authorities, it is considered as the main event that united Taiwan's opposition. Who acts: authorities, main event, Taiwan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Taiwan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Taiwan, sentence 221

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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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Although the protest was rapidly crushed by the authorities, it is considered as the main event that united Taiwan's opposition.

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**Who acts:** authorities, main event, Taiwan · **What happens:** crush, consider, unite, oppose · **To what, where:** protest, opposition

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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 (authorities, main event, Taiwan), 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:221
# text = Although the protest was rapidly crushed by the authorities, it is considered as the main event that united Taiwan's opposition.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	protest	protest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	crushed	crush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	united	unite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crush** | past · passive | the authorities | the protest |  |  |  | rapidly *property* | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **consider** | present · passive |  | protest |  |  |  | as the main event | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 3 | **unite** | past | the main event | Taiwan's opposition |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opposition=Patient |
| 4 | **oppose** |  | Taiwan |  |  |  |  |  | nom opposition «act transitive»: poss=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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