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title: Festivals are primarily religious, and most towns and villages have… — Philippines · tree and pragmatics
description: Festivals are primarily religious, and most towns and villages have such a festival (usually to honor a patron saint). Who acts: Festivals, most towns. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Philippines» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Philippines, sentence 403

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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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Festivals are primarily religious, and most towns and villages have such a festival (usually to honor a patron saint).

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**Who acts:** Festivals, most towns · **What happens:** be, have, honor · **To what, where:** festival, patron saint

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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 (Festivals, most towns), 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:403
# text = Festivals are primarily religious, and most towns and villages have such a festival (usually to honor a patron saint).
1	Festivals	festival	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	14	det:predet	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	honor	honor	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	patron	patron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	saint	saint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	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 | Festivals |  |  |  |  | primarily, religious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | most towns and villages | such festival |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent festival=Patient |
| 3 | **honor** | to-infinitive |  | a patron saint |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saint=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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**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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