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title: Many elements of the nation's culture have Chinese origins, drawing… — Vietnam · tree and pragmatics
description: Many elements of the nation's culture have Chinese origins, drawing on elements of Confucianism, Mahāyāna Buddhism, and Taoism in its traditional political system and philosophy. Who acts: Many elements. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vietnam» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vietnam, sentence 561

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From Wikipedia, [«Vietnam»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam), 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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Many elements of the nation's culture have Chinese origins, drawing on elements of Confucianism, Mahāyāna Buddhism, and Taoism in its traditional political system and philosophy.

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**Who acts:** Many elements · **What happens:** have, draw · **To what, where:** Chinese origins, elements

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Vietnam». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many elements), 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:Vietnam:561
# text = Many elements of the nation's culture have Chinese origins, drawing on elements of Confucianism, Mahāyāna Buddhism, and Taoism in its traditional political system and philosophy.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	elements	element	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	origins	origin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	elements	element	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Confucianism	Confucianism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	Mahāyāna	Mahāyāna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Buddhism	Buddhism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Taoism	Taoism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
25	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	philosophy	philosophy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Many elements of the nation's culture | Chinese origins |  |  |  | Taoism in culture's traditional political system and philosophy *parataxis* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent origin=Patient |
| 2 | **draw** | gerund | Many elements of the nation's culture *not said here* |  |  | elements of Confucianism and Mahāyāna Buddhism |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on element=Destination |

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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, «Vietnam», 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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