Philippines, sentence 492
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.
Unlike other East or Southeast Asian countries, most Filipinos do not eat with chopsticks; they use spoons and forks.
Who acts: most Filipinos, Filipinos · What happens: not eat, use · To what, where: spoons
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 (most Filipinos, Filipinos), 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 | Unlike | unlike | ADP | _ | 3 East | case |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 East | amod |
| 3 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 eat | obl |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 countries | cc |
| 5 | Southeast | Southeast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 countries | compound |
| 6 | Asian | Asian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 countries | amod |
| 7 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 East | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 East | punct |
| 9 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 Filipinos | amod |
| 10 | Filipinos | Filipino | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 eat | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 eat | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 eat | advmod |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 chopsticks | case |
| 15 | chopsticks | chopstick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 eat | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 use | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 use | nsubj |
| 18 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 eat | conj |
| 19 | spoons | spoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 use | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 forks | cc |
| 21 | forks | fork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 spoons | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat | present · do-support | most Filipinos | unlike other East or Southeast Asian countries; with chopsticks | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | use | present | Filipinos = filipino | spoons and forks | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoon=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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