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title: On the western fringes of the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Philippines… — Philippines · tree and pragmatics
description: On the western fringes of the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Philippines has frequent seismic and volcanic activity. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Philippines» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Philippines, sentence 138

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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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On the western fringes of the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Philippines has frequent seismic and volcanic activity.

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**What happens:** have · **To what, where:** frequent seismic activity, western fringes

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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: 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:138
# text = On the western fringes of the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Philippines has frequent seismic and volcanic activity.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fringes	fringe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Ring	Ring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Fire	Fire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Philippines	Philippines	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Ptan	8	conj	_	_
14	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
16	seismic	seismic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	activity	activity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  | frequent seismic activity |  | the western fringes of the Pacific Ring of Fire and the Philippines |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent activity=Patient |

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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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