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title: During the Spanish colonial period, art was used to spread Catholici… — Philippines · tree and pragmatics
description: During the Spanish colonial period, art was used to spread Catholicism mainly through paintings and sculptures. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Philippines» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Philippines, sentence 414

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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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During the Spanish colonial period, art was used to spread Catholicism mainly through paintings and sculptures.

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**What happens:** use, spread · **To what, where:** art, Catholicism, paintings

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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:414
# text = During the Spanish colonial period, art was used to spread Catholicism mainly through paintings and sculptures.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	colonial	colonial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
12	Catholicism	Catholicism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sculptures	sculpture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past · passive |  | art |  |  | during the Spanish colonial period |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **spread** | to-infinitive |  | Catholicism |  | paintings and sculptures |  | mainly *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent catholicism=Theme through painting=Destination |

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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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