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title: UMNO leaders believed that the additional Malay population in the Bo… — Singapore · tree and pragmatics
description: UMNO leaders believed that the additional Malay population in the Bornean territories would balance Singapore's Chinese population. Who acts: UMNO leaders, additional Malay population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Singapore» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Singapore, sentence 111

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From Wikipedia, [«Singapore»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore), 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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UMNO leaders believed that the additional Malay population in the Bornean territories would balance Singapore's Chinese population.

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**Who acts:** UMNO leaders, additional Malay population · **What happens:** believe, balance · **To what, where:** Chinese population · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Singapore». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (UMNO leaders, additional Malay population), 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:Singapore:111
# text = UMNO leaders believed that the additional Malay population in the Bornean territories would balance Singapore's Chinese population.
1	UMNO	umno	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	additional	additional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Malay	Malay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Bornean	bornean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	territories	territory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	balance	balance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
15	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | past | UMNO leaders |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **balance** | would | the additional Malay population in the Bornean territories | Singapore's Chinese population |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location population=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, «Singapore», 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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