Philippines, sentence 254
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 is a popular retirement destination for foreigners because of its climate and low cost of living.
Who acts: Philippines, destination · What happens: be, acclimate, cost · To what, where: popular retirement destination, living
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, destination), 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 | 7 destination | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 destination | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 destination | det |
| 5 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 destination | amod |
| 6 | retirement | retirement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 destination | compound |
| 7 | destination | destination | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 foreigners | case |
| 9 | foreigners | foreigner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 destination | nmod |
| 10 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 13 climate | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 because | fixed |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 climate | nmod:poss |
| 13 | climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 destination | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cost | cc |
| 15 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cost | amod |
| 16 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 climate | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 living | case |
| 18 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cost | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 destination | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Philippines | a popular retirement destination | for foreigners; because destination's climate and low cost of living | tree rules | |||
| 2 | acclimate | destination | nom climate «state intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 3 | cost | living | nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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