Philippines, sentence 318
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.
Primarily the descendants of immigrants from Fujian, the pure ethnic Chinese Filipinos during the American colonial era (early 1900s) purportedly numbered about 1.35 million; while an estimated 22.8 million (around 20 percent) of Filipinos have half or partial Chinese ancestry from precolonial, colonial, and 20th century Chinese migrants.
Who acts: early 1900s, 22.8 million, descendants · What happens: number, estimate, percent, have · To what, where: 1.35 million, half
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 (early 1900s, 22.8 million, descendants), 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 | Primarily | primarily | ADV | _ | 3 descendants | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 descendants | det |
| 3 | descendants | descendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 have | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 immigrants | case |
| 5 | immigrants | immigrant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 descendants | nmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Fujian | case |
| 7 | Fujian | Fujian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 immigrants | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Filipinos | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Filipinos | det |
| 10 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Filipinos | amod |
| 11 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Filipinos | amod |
| 12 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Filipinos | amod |
| 13 | Filipinos | Filipino | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 Fujian | conj |
| 14 | during | during | ADP | _ | 18 era | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 era | det |
| 16 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 era | amod |
| 17 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 era | amod |
| 18 | era | era | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Filipinos | nmod |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 1900s | punct |
| 20 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 1900s | amod |
| 21 | 1900s | 1900 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 18 era | conj |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 1900s | punct |
| 23 | purportedly | purportedly | ADV | _ | 24 numbered | advmod |
| 24 | numbered | number | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 1900s | acl |
| 25 | about | about | ADV | _ | 27 million | advmod |
| 26 | 1.35 | 1.35 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 million | compound |
| 27 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 numbered | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 percent | punct |
| 29 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 37 percent | mark |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 percent | det |
| 31 | estimated | estimate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 percent | amod |
| 32 | 22.8 | 22.8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 million | compound |
| 33 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 percent | nsubj |
| 34 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 37 percent | punct |
| 35 | around | around | ADV | _ | 36 20 | advmod |
| 36 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 percent | nummod |
| 37 | percent | percent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 descendants | appos |
| 38 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 37 percent | punct |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Filipinos | case |
| 40 | Filipinos | Filipino | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 descendants | nmod |
| 41 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 42 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 41 have | obj |
| 43 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 46 ancestry | cc |
| 44 | partial | partial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 ancestry | amod |
| 45 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 ancestry | amod |
| 46 | ancestry | ancestry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 half | conj |
| 47 | from | from | ADP | _ | 56 migrants | case |
| 48 | precolonial | precolonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 migrants | amod |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 colonial | punct |
| 50 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 precolonial | conj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 migrants | punct |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 migrants | cc |
| 53 | 20th | 20th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 54 century | amod |
| 54 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 migrants | compound |
| 55 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 migrants | amod |
| 56 | migrants | migrant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 ancestry | nmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 41 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | number | participle | early 1900s not said here | 1.35 million | purportedly property | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | estimate | participle | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | percent | 22.8 million | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | have | present | the descendants of immigrants from Fujian and the pure ethnic Chinese Filipinos during the American colonial era and early 1900s of Filipinos | half or partial Chinese ancestry from precolonial century Chinese migrants | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Philippines», 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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