Philippines, sentence 202
From Wikipedia, «Philippines», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The Philippines relies heavily on the United States for its external defense; the U.S. has made regular assurances to defend the Philippines, including the South China Sea.
Who acts: Philippines · What happens: rely, make, defend · To what, where: U.S., Philippines
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Philippines». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Philippines), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Philippines | det |
| 2 | Philippines | Philippines | PROPN | Number=Ptan | 3 relies | nsubj |
| 3 | relies | rely | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 3 relies | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 States | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 States | det |
| 7 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 States | amod |
| 8 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 relies | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 defense | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 defense | nmod:poss |
| 11 | external | external | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 defense | amod |
| 12 | defense | defense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 relies | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 U.S. | det |
| 15 | U.S. | U.S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 made | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 made | aux |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 relies | parataxis |
| 18 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 assurances | amod |
| 19 | assurances | assurance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 made | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 defend | mark |
| 21 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 made | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Philippines | det |
| 23 | Philippines | Philippines | PROPN | Number=Ptan | 21 defend | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Sea | punct |
| 25 | including | including | ADP | _ | 29 Sea | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Sea | det |
| 27 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Sea | compound |
| 28 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Sea | compound |
| 29 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 defend | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 relies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rely | present | the Philippines | for favor's external defense; on the United States; heavily property | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on state=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | present · perfect · passive | the U.S. | regular assurances obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary assurance=Product | ||||
| 3 | defend | to-infinitive | the Philippines | including the South China Sea | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent philippines=Beneficiary |
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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