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title: Traditional desserts are kakanin (rice cakes), which include puto, s… — Philippines · tree and pragmatics
description: Traditional desserts are kakanin (rice cakes), which include puto, suman, and bibingka. Who acts: Traditional desserts, kakanin. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Philippines» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Philippines, sentence 488

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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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Traditional desserts are kakanin (rice cakes), which include puto, suman, and bibingka.

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**Who acts:** Traditional desserts, kakanin · **What happens:** be, include · **To what, where:** kakanin, suman

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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 (Traditional desserts, kakanin), 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:488
# text = Traditional desserts are kakanin (rice cakes), which include puto, suman, and bibingka.
1	Traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	desserts	dessert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	kakanin	kakanin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	include	include	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	puto	puto	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	suman	suman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	bibingka	bibingka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Traditional desserts | kakanin |  |  |  | rice cakes *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **include** | present | kakanin | suman |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suman=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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