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title: The Austronesian population's origin is uncertain, but relatives of… — Philippines · tree and pragmatics
description: The Austronesian population's origin is uncertain, but relatives of Taiwanese aborigines probably brought their language and mixed with the region's existing population. Who acts: origin, relatives. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Philippines» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Philippines, sentence 311

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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 Austronesian population's origin is uncertain, but relatives of Taiwanese aborigines probably brought their language and mixed with the region's existing population.

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**Who acts:** origin, relatives · **What happens:** be, bring, mix, exist · **To what, where:** language

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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 (origin, relatives), 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:311
# text = The Austronesian population's origin is uncertain, but relatives of Taiwanese aborigines probably brought their language and mixed with the region's existing population.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Austronesian	austronesian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	uncertain	uncertain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Taiwanese	Taiwanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	aborigines	aborigine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	existing	exist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
25	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Austronesian population's origin |  |  |  |  | uncertain *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | past | relatives of Taiwanese aborigines | relatives's language |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent language=Theme |
| 3 | **mix** | participle | relatives of Taiwanese aborigines *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the region's existing population | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with population=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **exist** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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