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title: Following the fall of the Ming dynasty in Beijing in 1644, Koxinga (… — Taiwan · tree and pragmatics
description: Following the fall of the Ming dynasty in Beijing in 1644, Koxinga (Zheng Chenggong) pledged allegiance to the Yongli Emperor and attacked the Qing dynasty along the southeastern coast of China. Who acts: Koxinga. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Taiwan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Taiwan, sentence 85

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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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Following the fall of the Ming dynasty in Beijing in 1644, Koxinga (Zheng Chenggong) pledged allegiance to the Yongli Emperor and attacked the Qing dynasty along the southeastern coast of China.

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**Who acts:** Koxinga · **What happens:** follow, pledge, attack · **To what, where:** allegiance, Yongli Emperor, Qing dynasty

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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 (Koxinga), 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:85
# text = Following the fall of the Ming dynasty in Beijing in 1644, Koxinga (Zheng Chenggong) pledged allegiance to the Yongli Emperor and attacked the Qing dynasty along the southeastern coast of China.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Beijing	Beijing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1644	1644	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Koxinga	Koxinga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Zheng	Zheng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	Chenggong	Chenggong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
18	pledged	pledge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	allegiance	allegiance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Yongli	Yongli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	attacked	attack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Qing	Qing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	along	along	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	southeastern	southeastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pledge** | past | Koxinga | allegiance | the Yongli Emperor |  |  | follow the fall of the Ming dynasty in Beijing in 1644 | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent allegiance=Theme to emperor=Goal |
| 3 | **attack** | past | Koxinga *not said here* | the Qing dynasty |  |  |  | along the southeastern coast of China | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dynasty=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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