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title: Spanish-based creole varieties, collectively known as Chavacano, are… — Philippines · tree and pragmatics
description: Spanish-based creole varieties, collectively known as Chavacano, are also spoken. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Philippines» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Philippines, sentence 327

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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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Spanish-based creole varieties, collectively known as Chavacano, are also spoken.

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**What happens:** base, know, speak · **To what, where:** Spanish based creole varieties · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:327
# text = Spanish-based creole varieties, collectively known as Chavacano, are also spoken.
1	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	creole	creole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	varieties	variety	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	collectively	collectively	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Chavacano	Chavacano	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	also	also	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **base** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  | Spanish based creole varieties *not said here* |  |  |  | as Chavacano; collectively *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as chavacano=Attribute |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | Spanish based creole varieties |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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