Singapore, sentence 270
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.
Considered too small to provide effective security for the new country, the development of its military forces became a priority.
Who acts: military forces · What happens: consider, provide, become · To what, where: effective security, priority
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 (military forces), 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 | Considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 small | advmod |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Considered | xcomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 provide | mark |
| 5 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 small | advcl |
| 6 | effective | effective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 security | amod |
| 7 | security | security | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 provide | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 country | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 country | det |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 country | amod |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 security | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 development | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 development | det |
| 14 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Considered | obl:agent |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 forces | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 forces | nmod:poss |
| 17 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 forces | amod |
| 18 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 became | nsubj |
| 19 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 development | acl:relcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 priority | det |
| 21 | priority | priority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 became | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | participle | the development obl:agent; small property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | provide | to-infinitive | effective security | for the new country | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition security=Theme for country=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | become | past | country's military forces | a priority | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient development=Result |
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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