Singapore, sentence 300
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 government has responded that it has "no doubts" that it is the right policy and that there is "clear evidence" of serious deterrence, and that the law should be looked at upon in the wider context of "saving lives", particularly citizens.
Who acts: government · What happens: respond, have, be, look, save · To what, where: doubts, right policy, clear evidence, law, wider context · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (government), 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 government | det |
| 2 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 responded | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 responded | aux |
| 4 | responded | respond | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 has | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 has | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 responded | ccomp |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 doubts | punct |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 doubts | det |
| 10 | doubts | doubt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 has | obj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 doubts | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 policy | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 policy | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 policy | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 policy | det |
| 16 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 policy | amod |
| 17 | policy | policy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 doubts | acl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 evidence | cc |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 is | mark |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 is | expl |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 evidence | cop |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 evidence | punct |
| 23 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 evidence | amod |
| 24 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 policy | conj |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 evidence | punct |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 deterrence | case |
| 27 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 deterrence | amod |
| 28 | deterrence | deterrence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 evidence | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 looked | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 looked | cc |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 looked | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 law | det |
| 33 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 looked | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 looked | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 looked | aux:pass |
| 36 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 responded | conj |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 42 context | case |
| 38 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 42 context | case |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 context | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 context | det |
| 41 | wider | wide | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 42 context | amod |
| 42 | context | context | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 looked | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 lives | case |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 saving | punct |
| 45 | saving | save | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 46 lives | amod |
| 46 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 context | nmod |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 lives | punct |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 citizens | punct |
| 49 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 50 citizens | advmod |
| 50 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 lives | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 responded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | respond speech: other | present · perfect | the government | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | present | government | no doubts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | government | the right policy and clear evidence | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | government not said here | clear evidence | of serious deterrence | tree rules | |||
| 5 | look | should · passive | the law | the wider context of saving lives and citizens | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | save in a quote | gerund | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Singapore», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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