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title: Judicial authority is vested in the Supreme Court, composed of a chi… — Philippines · tree and pragmatics
description: Judicial authority is vested in the Supreme Court, composed of a chief justice and fourteen associate justices, who are appointed by the president from nominations submitted by the Judicial and Bar Council. Who acts: Judicial authority, president. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Philippines» with its dep
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# Philippines, sentence 182

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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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Judicial authority is vested in the Supreme Court, composed of a chief justice and fourteen associate justices, who are appointed by the president from nominations submitted by the Judicial and Bar Council.

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**Who acts:** Judicial authority, president · **What happens:** be, compose, appoint, submit · **To what, where:** Supreme Court, fourteen associate justices, nominations

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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 (Judicial authority, president), 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:182
# text = Judicial authority is vested in the Supreme Court, composed of a chief justice and fourteen associate justices, who are appointed by the president from nominations submitted by the Judicial and Bar Council.
1	Judicial	judicial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	authority	authority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	vested	vested	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Supreme	Supreme	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	composed	compose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	associate	associate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	justices	justice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	nominations	nomination	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
28	submitted	submit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	Judicial	judicial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	Bar	Bar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Judicial authority |  |  | the Supreme Court |  | vested *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **compose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | of a chief justice and fourteen associate justices | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **appoint** | present · passive | the president | fourteen associate justices |  | nominations |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 4 | **submit** | participle |  | nominations *not said here* |  |  |  | the Judicial Bar Council *obl:agent* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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