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title: The majority of Taiwanese people usually combine the secular moral t… — Taiwan · tree and pragmatics
description: The majority of Taiwanese people usually combine the secular moral teachings of Confucianism with whatever religions they are affiliated with. Who acts: majority. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Taiwan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Taiwan, sentence 528

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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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The majority of Taiwanese people usually combine the secular moral teachings of Confucianism with whatever religions they are affiliated with.

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**Who acts:** majority · **What happens:** combine, affiliate, teach · **To what, where:** secular moral teachings, teachings, Confucianism

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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 (majority), 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:528
# text = The majority of Taiwanese people usually combine the secular moral teachings of Confucianism with whatever religions they are affiliated with.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Taiwanese	Taiwanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	combine	combine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	secular	secular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	moral	moral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	teachings	teaching	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Confucianism	Confucianism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	whatever	whatever	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	16	det	_	_
16	religions	religion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	affiliated	affiliate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **combine** | present | the majority of Taiwanese people | the secular moral teachings of Confucianism |  |  |  | with whatever religions; usually *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent teaching=Patient with religion=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **affiliate** | present · passive |  | teachings *= teaching* |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **teach** |  |  | Confucianism |  |  |  | with whatever religions | nom teaching «act transitive»: of=patient with=obl |

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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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