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title: The Philippines' coastline measures 36289 km, the world's fifth-long… — Philippines · tree and pragmatics
description: The Philippines' coastline measures 36289 km, the world's fifth-longest, and the country's exclusive economic zone covers 2263816 km². Who acts: coastline, exclusive economic zone. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Philippines» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Philippines, sentence 134

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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 Philippines' coastline measures 36289 km, the world's fifth-longest, and the country's exclusive economic zone covers 2263816 km².

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**Who acts:** coastline, exclusive economic zone · **What happens:** measure, cover · **To what, where:** 36289 km, km ²

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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 (coastline, exclusive economic zone), 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:134
# text = The Philippines' coastline measures 36289 km, the world's fifth-longest, and the country's exclusive economic zone covers 2263816 km².
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Philippines	Philippines	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Ptan	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	coastline	coastline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	measures	measure	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	36289	36289	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	exclusive	exclusive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	covers	cover	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	2263816	2263816	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	²	²	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **measure** | present | the Philippines's coastline | 36289 km |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme km=Value |
| 2 | **cover** | present | the country's exclusive economic zone | km ² |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ²=Destination |

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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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