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title: Indonesia opposed the formation of Malaysia due to its own claims ov… — Singapore · tree and pragmatics
description: Indonesia opposed the formation of Malaysia due to its own claims over Borneo and launched Konfrontasi in response to the formation of Malaysia. Who acts: Indonesia, formation. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Singapore» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Singapore, sentence 117

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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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Indonesia opposed the formation of Malaysia due to its own claims over Borneo and launched Konfrontasi in response to the formation of Malaysia.

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**Who acts:** Indonesia, formation · **What happens:** oppose, launch, claim · **To what, where:** formation, Konfrontasi, response, Borneo

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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 (Indonesia, formation), 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:117
# text = Indonesia opposed the formation of Malaysia due to its own claims over Borneo and launched Konfrontasi in response to the formation of Malaysia.
1	Indonesia	Indonesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	opposed	oppose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	formation	formation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Malaysia	Malaysia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	11	case	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	claims	claim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Borneo	Borneo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	launched	launch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	Konfrontasi	Konfrontasi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	formation	formation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Malaysia	Malaysia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oppose** | past | Indonesia | the formation of Malaysia |  |  |  | due formation's own claims over Borneo | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent formation=Patient |
| 2 | **launch** | past | Indonesia *not said here* | Konfrontasi |  | response |  | to the formation of Malaysia | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent konfrontasi=Theme in response=Destination |
| 3 | **claim** |  | formation |  |  | Borneo |  |  | nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=agent over=place |

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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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