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title: Primarily the descendants of immigrants from Fujian, the pure ethnic… — Philippines · tree and pragmatics
description: Primarily the descendants of immigrants from Fujian, the pure ethnic Chinese Filipinos during the American colonial era (early 1900s) purportedly numbered about 1.35 million; while an estimated 22.8 million (around 20 percent) of Filipinos have half or partial Chinese ancestry from precolonial, colo
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# Philippines, sentence 318

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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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Primarily the descendants of immigrants from Fujian, the pure ethnic Chinese Filipinos during the American colonial era (early 1900s) purportedly numbered about 1.35 million; while an estimated 22.8 million (around 20 percent) of Filipinos have half or partial Chinese ancestry from precolonial, colonial, and 20th century Chinese migrants.

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**Who acts:** early 1900s, 22.8 million, descendants · **What happens:** number, estimate, percent, have · **To what, where:** 1.35 million, half

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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 (early 1900s, 22.8 million, descendants), 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:318
# text = Primarily the descendants of immigrants from Fujian, the pure ethnic Chinese Filipinos during the American colonial era (early 1900s) purportedly numbered about 1.35 million; while an estimated 22.8 million (around 20 percent) of Filipinos have half or partial Chinese ancestry from precolonial, colonial, and 20th century Chinese migrants.
1	Primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	descendants	descendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	immigrants	immigrant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Fujian	Fujian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Filipinos	Filipino	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
14	during	during	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	1900s	1900	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
23	purportedly	purportedly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	numbered	number	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
25	about	about	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	1.35	1.35	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	compound	_	_
27	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
29	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
31	estimated	estimate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
32	22.8	22.8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	compound	_	_
33	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nsubj	_	_
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	around	around	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	percent	percent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	37	punct	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Filipinos	Filipino	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
41	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
42	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	41	obj	_	_
43	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	partial	partial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
45	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	ancestry	ancestry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
47	from	from	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
48	precolonial	precolonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
50	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
53	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	54	amod	_	_
54	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
55	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	migrants	migrant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **number** | participle | early 1900s *not said here* | 1.35 million |  |  |  | purportedly *property* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **estimate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **percent** |  | 22.8 million |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | the descendants of immigrants from Fujian and the pure ethnic Chinese Filipinos during the American colonial era and early 1900s of Filipinos | half or partial Chinese ancestry from precolonial century Chinese migrants |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=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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