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title: Despite being a member of KMT prior to and during his presidency, Le… — Taiwan · tree and pragmatics
description: Despite being a member of KMT prior to and during his presidency, Lee Teng-hui also held a similar view and was a supporter of the Taiwanization movement. Who acts: Lee. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Taiwan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Taiwan, sentence 336

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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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Despite being a member of KMT prior to and during his presidency, Lee Teng-hui also held a similar view and was a supporter of the Taiwanization movement.

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**Who acts:** Lee · **What happens:** be, hold · **To what, where:** similar view, supporter

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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 (Lee), 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:336
# text = Despite being a member of KMT prior to and during his presidency, Lee Teng-hui also held a similar view and was a supporter of the Taiwanization movement.
1	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	KMT	KMT	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	prior	prior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	4	amod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
10	during	during	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	presidency	presidency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	Lee	Lee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	Teng	Teng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	hui	hui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
18	also	also	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	supporter	supporter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Taiwanization	Taiwanization	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | despite a member; of KMT | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | past | Lee | a similar view |  |  | during KMT's presidency |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Lee *not said here* | a supporter |  |  |  | of the Taiwanization movement | 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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