Singapore, sentence 406

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.

Prior to 2010, each person could register as a member of only one race, by default that of their father; therefore, mixed-race persons were solely grouped under their father's race in government censuses.

Who acts: person, father · What happens: register, mix, group, race · To what, where: race persons, race, government censuses

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 (person, father), 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	Prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	8 register	advcl
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 2010	case
3	2010	2010	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Prior	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Prior	punct
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 register	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 register	aux
8	register	register	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 member	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 member	det
11	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 register	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 race	case
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 one	advmod
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 race	nummod
15	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 member	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 default	punct
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 default	case
18	default	default	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 register	obl
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 father	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 father	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 father	nmod:poss
22	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 default	acl:relcl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 grouped	punct
24	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	29 persons	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 therefore	punct
26	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 race	amod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 mixed	punct
28	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 persons	compound
29	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 grouped	nsubj:pass
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 grouped	aux:pass
31	solely	solely	ADV	_	32 grouped	advmod
32	grouped	group	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 register	parataxis
33	under	under	ADP	_	37 race	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 father	nmod:poss
35	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 race	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 father	case
37	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 grouped	obl
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 censuses	case
39	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 censuses	compound
40	censuses	census	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 race	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 register	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	register	could	each person			as a member of one race result; by default of persons's father default of persons's father default	vn patent-101 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent as member=Result
2	mix	participle					vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	group	past · passive		race persons	persons's father's race in government censuses	solely property	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	race		persons's father		government censuses		nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent in=place

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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Singapore, sentence 406