Singapore, sentence 221
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.
The PAP occupies a dominant position in Singaporean politics, having won large parliamentary majorities in every election since self-governance was granted in 1959.
Who acts: PAP · What happens: occupy, win, grant · To what, where: dominant position, Singaporean politics, large parliamentary majorities, election, self governance, 1959
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 (PAP), 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 | 2 PAP | det |
| 2 | PAP | pap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 occupies | nsubj |
| 3 | occupies | occupy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 position | det |
| 5 | dominant | dominant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 position | amod |
| 6 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 occupies | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 politics | case |
| 8 | Singaporean | Singaporean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 politics | compound |
| 9 | politics | politics | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 position | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 won | punct |
| 11 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 won | aux |
| 12 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 occupies | parataxis |
| 13 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 majorities | amod |
| 14 | parliamentary | parliamentary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 majorities | amod |
| 15 | majorities | majority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 won | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 election | case |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 election | det |
| 18 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 won | obl |
| 19 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 24 granted | mark |
| 20 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 governance | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 self | punct |
| 22 | governance | governance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 granted | aux:pass |
| 24 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 won | advcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 1959 | case |
| 26 | 1959 | 1959 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 granted | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 occupies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occupy | present | the PAP | a dominant position | Singaporean politics | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus position=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | win | gerund · perfect | large parliamentary majorities | every election | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent majority=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | grant | past · passive | self governance | 1959 | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
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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