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title: The American arrival began Filipino literary use of English and infl… — Philippines · tree and pragmatics
description: The American arrival began Filipino literary use of English and influenced the development of the Philippine comics industry that flourished from the 1920s through the 1970s. Who acts: American arrival, Philippine comics industry. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Philippines» with its dependency tree and 
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# Philippines, sentence 457

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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 American arrival began Filipino literary use of English and influenced the development of the Philippine comics industry that flourished from the 1920s through the 1970s.

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**Who acts:** American arrival, Philippine comics industry · **What happens:** begin, influence, flourish, use, develop · **To what, where:** Filipino literary use, development, 1920s, English, Philippine comics industry

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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 (American arrival, Philippine comics industry), 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:457
# text = The American arrival began Filipino literary use of English and influenced the development of the Philippine comics industry that flourished from the 1920s through the 1970s.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Filipino	Filipino	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	literary	literary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	influenced	influence	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	Philippine	philippine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	comics	comics	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	industry	industry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	flourished	flourish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	1920s	1920s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	1970s	1970s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the American arrival | Filipino literary use of English |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Eventuality |
| 2 | **influence** | past | the American arrival *not said here* | the development of the Philippine comics industry |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent development=Patient |
| 3 | **flourish** | past | the Philippine comics industry |  |  | the 1920s |  | through the 1970s | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through 1970s=Location |
| 4 | **use** |  |  | English |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **develop** |  |  | the Philippine comics industry |  |  |  |  | nom development «act transitive»: of=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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