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title: As the Taiwanese economy is largely science and technology based, th… — Taiwan · tree and pragmatics
description: As the Taiwanese economy is largely science and technology based, the labor market demands people who have achieved some form of higher education, particularly related to science and engineering to gain a competitive edge when searching for employment. Who acts: Taiwanese economy, labor market, peop
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# Taiwan, sentence 549

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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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As the Taiwanese economy is largely science and technology based, the labor market demands people who have achieved some form of higher education, particularly related to science and engineering to gain a competitive edge when searching for employment.

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**Who acts:** Taiwanese economy, labor market, people · **What happens:** be, base, demand, achieve, engineer, gain · **To what, where:** technology, people, form, competitive edge, higher education

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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 (Taiwanese economy, labor market, people), 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:549
# text = As the Taiwanese economy is largely science and technology based, the labor market demands people who have achieved some form of higher education, particularly related to science and engineering to gain a competitive edge when searching for employment.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Taiwanese	Taiwanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	technology	technology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	labor	labor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	demands	demand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	achieved	achieve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	engineering	engineer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	gain	gain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	competitive	competitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
38	searching	search	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	employment	employment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Taiwanese economy |  |  |  |  | as science and technology; technology *conj*; largely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **base** | participle |  | technology *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **demand** *speech: request* | present | the labor market | people |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme people=Precondition |
| 4 | **achieve** | present · perfect | people | some form of higher education |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Eventuality |
| 5 | **engineer** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **gain** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | a competitive edge |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=Theme |
| 7 | **search** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for employment | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for employment=Theme |
| 8 | **form** |  |  | higher education |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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