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title: The east and south of Taiwan are a complex system of belts formed by… — Taiwan · tree and pragmatics
description: The east and south of Taiwan are a complex system of belts formed by, and part of the zone of, active collision between the North Luzon Trough portion of the Luzon Volcanic Arc and South China, where accreted portions of the Luzon Arc and Luzon forearc form the eastern Coastal Range and parallel inl
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# Taiwan, sentence 273

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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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The east and south of Taiwan are a complex system of belts formed by, and part of the zone of, active collision between the North Luzon Trough portion of the Luzon Volcanic Arc and South China, where accreted portions of the Luzon Arc and Luzon forearc form the eastern Coastal Range and parallel inland Longitudinal Valley of Taiwan, respectively.

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**Who acts:** east, part · **What happens:** be, form, accrete · **To what, where:** complex system, belts, eastern Coastal Range

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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 (east, part), 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:273
# text = The east and south of Taiwan are a complex system of belts formed by, and part of the zone of, active collision between the North Luzon Trough portion of the Luzon Volcanic Arc and South China, where accreted portions of the Luzon Arc and Luzon forearc form the eastern Coastal Range and parallel inland Longitudinal Valley of Taiwan, respectively.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	complex	complex	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	belts	belt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	collision	collision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	between	between	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Luzon	Luzon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Trough	Trough	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	Luzon	Luzon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	Volcanic	Volcanic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Arc	Arc	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
38	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	41	advmod	_	_
41	accreted	accrete	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	amod	_	_
42	portions	portion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	Luzon	Luzon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	Arc	Arc	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	Luzon	Luzon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	_
49	forearc	forearc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	flat	_	_
50	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
52	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
53	Coastal	Coastal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	Range	Range	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
56	parallel	parallel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
57	inland	inland	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
58	Longitudinal	Longitudinal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	_
59	Valley	Valley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	conj	_	_
60	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
63	respectively	respectively	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the east and south of Taiwan | a complex system |  |  |  | of belts | tree rules |
| 2 | **form** | participle |  | belts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **accrete** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **form** | present | part of the zone of active collision between the Trough portion of the Luzon Volcanic Arc and South and China and accreted portions | the eastern Coastal Range and parallel Longitudinal Valley of Taiwan |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location range=Theme |

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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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