Singapore, sentence 493
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.
With the exception of the Peranakans who pledged their loyalties to Singapore, most of the labourers' loyalties lay with their respective homelands of Malaya, China and India.
Who acts: Peranakans, most · What happens: pledge, lay, except · To what, where: loyalties, Singapore, Peranakans
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 (Peranakans, most), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 exception | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 exception | det |
| 3 | exception | exception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lay | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Peranakans | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Peranakans | det |
| 6 | Peranakans | Peranakan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 exception | nmod |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 pledged | nsubj |
| 8 | pledged | pledge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Peranakans | acl:relcl |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 loyalties | nmod:poss |
| 10 | loyalties | loyalty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pledged | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Singapore | case |
| 12 | Singapore | Singapore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 pledged | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 exception | punct |
| 14 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 lay | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 loyalties | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 labourers | det |
| 17 | labourers | labourer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 loyalties | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 17 labourers | case |
| 19 | loyalties | loyalty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 most | nmod |
| 20 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 homelands | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 homelands | nmod:poss |
| 23 | respective | respective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 homelands | amod |
| 24 | homelands | homeland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lay | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Malaya | case |
| 26 | Malaya | Malaya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 homelands | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 China | punct |
| 28 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Malaya | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 India | cc |
| 30 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Malaya | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pledge | past | the Peranakans | Peranakans's loyalties | Singapore | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent loyalty=Theme to singapore=Goal | |||
| 2 | lay | present | most of the labourers's loyalties | with the exception of the Peranakans; with Peranakans's respective homelands of Malaya and China and India | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | except | the Peranakans | nom exception «cognition transitive»: of=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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