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title: During Lee's administration, both he and his party were involved in… — Taiwan · tree and pragmatics
description: During Lee's administration, both he and his party were involved in corruption controversies that came to be known as "black gold" politics. Who acts: administration, corruption controversies, Lee. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Taiwan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Taiwan, sentence 229

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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 Lee's administration, both he and his party were involved in corruption controversies that came to be known as "black gold" politics.

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**Who acts:** administration, corruption controversies, Lee · **What happens:** be, come, know, administer · **To what, where:** Lee, corruption controversies

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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 (administration, corruption controversies, Lee), 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:229
# text = During Lee's administration, both he and his party were involved in corruption controversies that came to be known as "black gold" politics.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Lee	Lee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc:preconj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	involved	involved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	acl:relcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	corruption	corruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	controversies	controversy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	politics	politics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · passive | Lee's administration *not said here* | Lee |  | corruption controversies |  | involved *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | corruption controversies |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | to-infinitive · passive | corruption controversies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as gold politics | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as politics=Attribute |
| 5 | **administer** |  | Lee |  |  |  |  |  | nom administration «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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