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title: Taiwan is one of the "Four Asian Tigers" alongside Hong Kong, South… — Taiwan · tree and pragmatics
description: Taiwan is one of the "Four Asian Tigers" alongside Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore. Who acts: Taiwan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Taiwan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Taiwan, sentence 436

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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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Taiwan is one of the "Four Asian Tigers" alongside Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore.

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**Who acts:** Taiwan · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** one

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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 (Taiwan), 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:436
# text = Taiwan is one of the "Four Asian Tigers" alongside Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore.
1	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	Asian	Asian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Tigers	Tiger	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	alongside	alongside	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Hong	Hong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	Kong	Kong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Taiwan | one |  |  |  | of the Four Asian Tigers alongside Hong and South Korea and Singapore | 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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