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title: Railways in Taiwan are primarily used for passenger services, with T… — Taiwan · tree and pragmatics
description: Railways in Taiwan are primarily used for passenger services, with Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) operating a circular route around the island and Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR) running high speed services on the west coast. Who acts: Taiwan Railways Administration, island. A sentence of Wikipe
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# Taiwan, sentence 473

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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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Railways in Taiwan are primarily used for passenger services, with Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) operating a circular route around the island and Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR) running high speed services on the west coast.

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**Who acts:** Taiwan Railways Administration, island · **What happens:** use, operate, run · **To what, where:** Railways, circular route, island, high speed services, west coast

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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 Railways Administration, island), 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:473
# text = Railways in Taiwan are primarily used for passenger services, with Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) operating a circular route around the island and Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR) running high speed services on the west coast.
1	Railways	railway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	passenger	passenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	Railways	Railways	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Administration	Administration	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl:agent	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	TRA	TRA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
18	operating	operate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	circular	circular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	around	around	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
27	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Speed	Speed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Rail	Rail	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	THSR	THSR	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
33	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
34	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	west	west	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · passive | Taiwan Railways Administration | Railways in Taiwan |  |  |  | for passenger services; primarily *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent subject=Theme for service=Eventuality |
| 2 | **operate** | gerund | Taiwan Railways Administration *not said here* | a circular route |  | the island and Taiwan Speed Rail |  |  | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Theme route=Attribute |
| 3 | **run** | gerund | the island and Taiwan Speed Rail *not said here* | high speed services |  | the west coast |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent service=Theme on coast=Trajectory |

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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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