Singapore, sentence 182
From Wikipedia, «Singapore», 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.
Singapore recognises that climate change and rising sea levels in the decades ahead will have major implications for its low-lying coastline.
Who acts: Singapore, climate change · What happens: recognise, rise, have, lie · To what, where: climate change, sea levels, major implications
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Singapore». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Singapore, climate change), 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 | Singapore | Singapore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 recognises | nsubj |
| 2 | recognises | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 change | mark |
| 4 | climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 change | compound |
| 5 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 recognises | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rising | cc |
| 7 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 change | acl |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 levels | compound |
| 9 | levels | level | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rising | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 decades | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 decades | det |
| 12 | decades | decade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 have | obl |
| 13 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 15 have | advmod |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | aux |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 rising | parataxis |
| 16 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 implications | amod |
| 17 | implications | implication | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 coastline | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 coastline | nmod:poss |
| 20 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lying | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 low | punct |
| 22 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 coastline | amod |
| 23 | coastline | coastline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 implications | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 recognises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognise | present | Singapore | climate change | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer change=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | rise | gerund | climate change not said here | sea levels | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location level=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | future | major implications | decade | for change's lying coastline; ahead property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent implication=Patient | |||
| 4 | lie | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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