Singapore, sentence 53
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 island was then nominally ruled by Tengku Abdul Rahman, the Sultan of Johor, who was controlled by the Dutch and the Bugis.
Who acts: Tengku Abdul · What happens: rule, control · To what, where: island, Sultan
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 (Tengku Abdul), 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 island | det |
| 2 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ruled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ruled | aux:pass |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 ruled | advmod |
| 5 | nominally | nominally | ADV | _ | 6 ruled | advmod |
| 6 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Abdul | case |
| 8 | Tengku | Tengku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Abdul | compound |
| 9 | Abdul | Abdul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ruled | obl |
| 10 | Rahman | Rahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Abdul | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Sultan | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sultan | det |
| 13 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Abdul | flat |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Johor | case |
| 15 | Johor | Johor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Sultan | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 controlled | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 controlled | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 controlled | aux:pass |
| 19 | controlled | control | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 Sultan | acl:relcl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 Dutch | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Dutch | det |
| 22 | Dutch | dutch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 controlled | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Bugis | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Bugis | det |
| 25 | Bugis | Bugis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Abdul | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ruled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past · passive | Tengku Abdul and the Bugis | the island | then | nominally property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||
| 2 | control | past · passive | the Sultan of Johor | by the Dutch | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: 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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