Singapore, sentence 209
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.
These qualifications include that a candidate needs to be a person at least 45 years of age who is no longer a member of a political party, to either have held public office for at least 3 years in a number of specific public service leadership roles, or to have 3 years experience as chief executive of a fully profitable private sector company with at least S$500 million in shareholders' equity, be a resident in Singapore for at least 10 years, not have a criminal record, and more.
Who acts: qualifications, candidate, age, 3 years · What happens: include, need, be, hold, have, experience · To what, where: person, member, public office, number, resident, Singapore
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 (qualifications, candidate, age, 3 years), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 qualifications | det |
| 2 | qualifications | qualification | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 include | nsubj |
| 3 | include | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 needs | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 candidate | det |
| 6 | candidate | candidate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 needs | nsubj |
| 7 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 include | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 person | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 person | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 person | det |
| 11 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 needs | xcomp |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 least | case |
| 13 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 45 | nmod |
| 14 | 45 | 45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 person | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 age | case |
| 17 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 years | nmod |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 member | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 member | cop |
| 20 | no | no | ADV | _ | 21 longer | advmod |
| 21 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 member | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 member | det |
| 23 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 age | acl:relcl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 party | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 party | det |
| 26 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 party | amod |
| 27 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 member | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 held | punct |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 held | mark |
| 30 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 32 held | cc:preconj |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 held | aux |
| 32 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 member | acl |
| 33 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 office | amod |
| 34 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 held | obj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 years | case |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 least | case |
| 37 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 38 3 | nmod |
| 38 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 39 years | nummod |
| 39 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 held | obl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 number | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 number | det |
| 42 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 held | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 roles | case |
| 44 | specific | specific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 roles | amod |
| 45 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 service | amod |
| 46 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 leadership | compound |
| 47 | leadership | leadership | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 roles | compound |
| 48 | roles | role | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 number | nmod |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 have | punct |
| 50 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 52 have | cc |
| 51 | to | to | PART | _ | 52 have | mark |
| 52 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 roles | acl:relcl |
| 53 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 54 years | nummod |
| 54 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 experience | nsubj |
| 55 | experience | experience | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 have | parataxis |
| 56 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 58 executive | mark |
| 57 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 executive | amod |
| 58 | executive | executive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 experience | ccomp |
| 59 | of | of | ADP | _ | 65 company | case |
| 60 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 65 company | det |
| 61 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 62 profitable | advmod |
| 62 | profitable | profitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 65 company | amod |
| 63 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 65 company | amod |
| 64 | sector | sector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 company | compound |
| 65 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 executive | obl |
| 66 | with | with | ADP | _ | 70 $ | case |
| 67 | at | at | ADP | _ | 68 least | case |
| 68 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 70 $ | nmod |
| 69 | S | S | PROPN | Number=Sing | 70 $ | nsubj |
| 70 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 65 company | nmod |
| 71 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 72 million | compound |
| 72 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 70 $ | nummod |
| 73 | in | in | ADP | _ | 76 equity | case |
| 74 | shareholders | shareholder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 76 equity | nmod:poss |
| 75 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 74 shareholders | case |
| 76 | equity | equity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 70 $ | nmod |
| 77 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 80 resident | punct |
| 78 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 80 resident | cop |
| 79 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 80 resident | det |
| 80 | resident | resident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 have | parataxis |
| 81 | in | in | ADP | _ | 82 Singapore | case |
| 82 | Singapore | Singapore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 80 resident | nmod |
| 83 | for | for | ADP | _ | 87 years | case |
| 84 | at | at | ADP | _ | 85 least | case |
| 85 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 86 10 | nmod |
| 86 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 87 years | nummod |
| 87 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 80 resident | nmod |
| 88 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 90 have | punct |
| 89 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 90 have | advmod |
| 90 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 have | conj |
| 91 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 93 record | det |
| 92 | criminal | criminal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 93 record | amod |
| 93 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 90 have | obj |
| 94 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 96 more | punct |
| 95 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 96 more | cc |
| 96 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 include | conj |
| 97 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 include | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | present | this qualifications | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | need | present | a candidate | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | a candidate not said here | a person | year | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | present | age | a member | of a political party; long property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | hold | to-infinitive · perfect | a candidate not said here | public office | a number of specific leadership roles | year | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent office=Theme in number=Location | ||
| 6 | have | to-infinitive | a candidate not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | experience | present | 3 years | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | is a | infinitive | a resident | Singapore | year | tree rules | |||
| 9 | not have | infinitive | a candidate not said here | a criminal record | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent record=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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