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title: Unlike other East or Southeast Asian countries, most Filipinos do no… — Philippines · tree and pragmatics
description: Unlike other East or Southeast Asian countries, most Filipinos do not eat with chopsticks; they use spoons and forks. Who acts: most Filipinos, Filipinos. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Philippines» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Philippines, sentence 492

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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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Unlike other East or Southeast Asian countries, most Filipinos do not eat with chopsticks; they use spoons and forks.

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**Who acts:** most Filipinos, Filipinos · **What happens:** not eat, use · **To what, where:** spoons

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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 (most Filipinos, Filipinos), 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:492
# text = Unlike other East or Southeast Asian countries, most Filipinos do not eat with chopsticks; they use spoons and forks.
1	Unlike	unlike	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	Southeast	Southeast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	Asian	Asian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	Filipinos	Filipino	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	chopsticks	chopstick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	spoons	spoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	forks	fork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **eat** | present · do-support | most Filipinos |  |  |  |  | unlike other East or Southeast Asian countries; with chopsticks | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **use** | present | Filipinos *= filipino* | spoons and forks |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoon=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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