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title: Between 1940 and 1945, the population of Tokyo dwindled from 6,700,0… — Tokyo · tree and pragmatics
description: Between 1940 and 1945, the population of Tokyo dwindled from 6,700,000 to less than 2,800,000, as soldiers were sent to the front and children were evacuated. Who acts: population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tokyo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tokyo, sentence 80

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From Wikipedia, [«Tokyo»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo), 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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Between 1940 and 1945, the population of Tokyo dwindled from 6,700,000 to less than 2,800,000, as soldiers were sent to the front and children were evacuated.

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**Who acts:** population · **What happens:** dwindle, send, evacuate · **To what, where:** 6,700,000, soldiers, front, children

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tokyo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (population), 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:Tokyo:80
# text = Between 1940 and 1945, the population of Tokyo dwindled from 6,700,000 to less than 2,800,000, as soldiers were sent to the front and children were evacuated.
1	Between	between	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1940	1940	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	1945	1945	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Tokyo	Tokyo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	dwindled	dwindle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	6,700,000	6,700,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	16	advmod	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	2,800,000	2,800,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	evacuated	evacuate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwindle** | past | the population of Tokyo |  |  | 6,700,000 to 2,800,000 |  | between 1940 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **send** | past · passive |  | soldiers |  | the front |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to front=Destination |
| 3 | **evacuate** | past · passive |  | children |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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, «Tokyo», 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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