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title: State-run companies began dropping "China" references in their names… — Taiwan · tree and pragmatics
description: State-run companies began dropping "China" references in their names and including "Taiwan". Who acts: run companies, references. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Taiwan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Taiwan, sentence 236

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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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State-run companies began dropping "China" references in their names and including "Taiwan".

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**Who acts:** run companies, references · **What happens:** begin, drop, name · **To what, where:** China references, names

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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 (run companies, references), 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:236
# text = State-run companies began dropping "China" references in their names and including "Taiwan".
1	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	dropping	drop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	references	reference	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	including	including	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | run companies |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **drop** | gerund | run companies *not said here* | China references |  | references's names and including |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent reference=Theme in name=Destination |
| 3 | **name** |  | references *= reference* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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