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title: The highest court, the Supreme Court, consists of a number of civil… — Taiwan · tree and pragmatics
description: The highest court, the Supreme Court, consists of a number of civil and criminal divisions, each of which is formed by a presiding judge and four associate judges, all appointed for life. Who acts: highest court, presiding judge. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Taiwan» with its dependency tree and pragma
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# Taiwan, sentence 295

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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 highest court, the Supreme Court, consists of a number of civil and criminal divisions, each of which is formed by a presiding judge and four associate judges, all appointed for life.

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**Who acts:** highest court, presiding judge · **What happens:** consist, form, preside, appoint · **To what, where:** each, four associate judges

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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 (highest court, presiding judge), 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:295
# text = The highest court, the Supreme Court, consists of a number of civil and criminal divisions, each of which is formed by a presiding judge and four associate judges, all appointed for life.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Supreme	Supreme	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	consists	consist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	criminal	criminal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	divisions	division	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	presiding	preside	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	_
27	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
30	associate	associate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	judges	judge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	all	all	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consist** | present | the highest court |  |  |  |  | of a number of civil divisions | tree rules |
| 2 | **form** | present · passive | a presiding judge and four associate judges | each |  |  |  | of civil divisions | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme |
| 3 | **preside** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **appoint** | participle |  | four associate judges *not said here* |  |  |  | for life; all *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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