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title: On 24 May 2017, the Constitutional Court ruled that then-current mar… — Taiwan · tree and pragmatics
description: On 24 May 2017, the Constitutional Court ruled that then-current marriage laws had been violating the Constitution by denying same-sex couples the right to marry. Who acts: Constitutional Court, current marriage laws, violating. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Taiwan» with its dependency tree and pragmat
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# Taiwan, sentence 427

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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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On 24 May 2017, the Constitutional Court ruled that then-current marriage laws had been violating the Constitution by denying same-sex couples the right to marry.

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**Who acts:** Constitutional Court, current marriage laws, violating · **What happens:** rule, violate, deny, couple, marry · **To what, where:** Constitution, same sex, right

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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 (Constitutional Court, current marriage laws, violating), 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:427
# text = On 24 May 2017, the Constitutional Court ruled that then-current marriage laws had been violating the Constitution by denying same-sex couples the right to marry.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Constitutional	Constitutional	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	current	current	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux	_	_
18	violating	violate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	csubj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	denying	deny	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
23	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	sex	sex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	couples	couple	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | past | the Constitutional Court |  |  |  | may |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **violate** | past · perfect · progressive | current marriage laws | the Constitution |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **deny** | gerund | current marriage laws *not said here* | same sex |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent sex=Eventuality |
| 4 | **couple** | present | violating | the right |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient |
| 5 | **marry** | to-infinitive | violating *not said here* | the right *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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