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title: Elsewhere, the name was used for the Ryukyu Islands in general or Ok… — Taiwan · tree and pragmatics
description: Elsewhere, the name was used for the Ryukyu Islands in general or Okinawa specifically; the name Ryūkyū is the Japanese form of Liúqiú. Who acts: name. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Taiwan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Taiwan, sentence 27

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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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Elsewhere, the name was used for the Ryukyu Islands in general or Okinawa specifically; the name Ryūkyū is the Japanese form of Liúqiú.

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**Who acts:** name · **What happens:** use, be · **To what, where:** name, Japanese form

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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 (name), 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:27
# text = Elsewhere, the name was used for the Ryukyu Islands in general or Okinawa specifically; the name Ryūkyū is the Japanese form of Liúqiú.
1	Elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Ryukyu	Ryukyu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nmod	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Okinawa	Okinawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	specifically	specifically	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	Ryūkyū	Ryūkyū	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Liúqiú	Liúqiú	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past · passive |  | the name |  |  |  | for the Ryukyu Islands in general or Okinawa; elsewhere *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for island=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the name | the Japanese form |  |  |  | of Liúqiú | tree rules |

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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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