Philippines, sentence 457

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 American arrival began Filipino literary use of English and influenced the development of the Philippine comics industry that flourished from the 1920s through the 1970s.

Who acts: American arrival, Philippine comics industry · What happens: begin, influence, flourish, use, develop · To what, where: Filipino literary use, development, 1920s, English, Philippine comics industry

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 (American arrival, Philippine comics industry), 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	3 arrival	det
2	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 arrival	amod
3	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Filipino	Filipino	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 use	amod
6	literary	literary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 use	amod
7	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 English	case
9	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 use	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 influenced	cc
11	influenced	influence	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 development	det
13	development	development	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 influenced	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 industry	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 industry	det
16	Philippine	philippine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 industry	amod
17	comics	comics	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 industry	compound
18	industry	industry	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 development	nmod
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 flourished	nsubj
20	flourished	flourish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 industry	acl:relcl
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 1920s	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 1920s	det
23	1920s	1920s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	20 flourished	obl
24	through	through	ADP	_	26 1970s	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 1970s	det
26	1970s	1970s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	20 flourished	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the American arrival	Filipino literary use of English			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Eventuality
2	influence	past	the American arrival not said here	the development of the Philippine comics industry			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent development=Patient
3	flourish	past	the Philippine comics industry		the 1920s	through the 1970s	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through 1970s=Location
4	use			English			nom use «act transitive»: of=patient
5	develop			the Philippine comics industry			nom development «act 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.

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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Philippines, sentence 457