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title: The First Philippine Republic was promulgated on January 21, 1899. — Philippines · tree and pragmatics
description: The First Philippine Republic was promulgated on January 21, 1899. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Philippines» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Philippines, sentence 78

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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 First Philippine Republic was promulgated on January 21, 1899.

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**What happens:** promulgate · **To what, where:** First Philippine Republic, 21

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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:78
# text = The First Philippine Republic was promulgated on January 21, 1899.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
3	Philippine	Philippine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	promulgated	promulgate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	1899	1899	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promulgate** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | the First Philippine Republic |  | 21  January  1899 |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |

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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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