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title: The country's 11 largest islands are Luzon, Mindanao, Samar, Negros,… — Philippines · tree and pragmatics
description: The country's 11 largest islands are Luzon, Mindanao, Samar, Negros, Palawan, Panay, Mindoro, Leyte, Cebu, Bohol and Masbate, about 95 percent of its total land area. Who acts: 11 largest islands. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Philippines» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Philippines, sentence 133

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From Wikipedia, [«Philippines»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The country's 11 largest islands are Luzon, Mindanao, Samar, Negros, Palawan, Panay, Mindoro, Leyte, Cebu, Bohol and Masbate, about 95 percent of its total land area.

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**Who acts:** 11 largest islands · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Luzon

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Philippines». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (11 largest islands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Philippines:133
# text = The country's 11 largest islands are Luzon, Mindanao, Samar, Negros, Palawan, Panay, Mindoro, Leyte, Cebu, Bohol and Masbate, about 95 percent of its total land area.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	Luzon	Luzon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Mindanao	Mindanao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Samar	Samar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Negros	Negros	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Palawan	Palawan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Panay	Panay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Mindoro	Mindoro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Leyte	Leyte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Cebu	Cebu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Bohol	Bohol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Masbate	Masbate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	about	about	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	95	95	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	percent	percent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
35	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the country's 11 largest islands | Luzon and Mindanao and Samar and Negros and Palawan and Panay and Mindoro and Leyte and Cebu and Bohol and Masbate |  |  |  | Mindanao *conj*; Samar *conj*; Negros *conj*; Palawan *conj*; Panay *conj*; Mindoro *conj*; Leyte *conj*; Cebu *conj*; Bohol *conj*; Masbate *conj*; 95 percent of Strait's total land area *appos* | tree rules |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Philippines», 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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