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title: The premier is selected by the president without the need for approv… — Taiwan · tree and pragmatics
description: The premier is selected by the president without the need for approval from the legislature, and neither the president nor the premier wields veto power. Who acts: president. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Taiwan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Taiwan, sentence 287

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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 premier is selected by the president without the need for approval from the legislature, and neither the president nor the premier wields veto power.

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**Who acts:** president · **What happens:** select, wield · **To what, where:** premier, veto power

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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 (president), 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:287
# text = The premier is selected by the president without the need for approval from the legislature, and neither the president nor the premier wields veto power.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	premier	premier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	selected	select	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	approval	approval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	legislature	legislature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	premier	premier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	wields	wield	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	veto	veto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	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 | **select** | present · passive | the president | the premier |  |  |  | without the need for approval from the legislature | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **wield** | present | the president nor the premier | veto power |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=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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