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title: There has been a small Muslim community of Hui people since the 17th… — Taiwan · tree and pragmatics
description: There has been a small Muslim community of Hui people since the 17th century. Who acts: small Muslim community. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Taiwan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Taiwan, sentence 526

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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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There has been a small Muslim community of Hui people since the 17th century.

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**Who acts:** small Muslim community · **What happens:** be

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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 (small Muslim community), 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:526
# text = There has been a small Muslim community of Hui people since the 17th century.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Muslim	Muslim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Hui	Hui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	since	since	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	17th	17th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present · perfect | a small Muslim community of Hui people |  |  | there | century |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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