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title: The PAP experienced its worst electoral performance in 2011, securin… — Singapore · tree and pragmatics
description: The PAP experienced its worst electoral performance in 2011, securing only 60% of the vote. Who acts: PAP. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Singapore» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Singapore, sentence 149

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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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The PAP experienced its worst electoral performance in 2011, securing only 60% of the vote.

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**Who acts:** PAP · **What happens:** experience, secure, perform · **To what, where:** worst electoral performance, 2011

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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 (PAP), 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:149
# text = The PAP experienced its worst electoral performance in 2011, securing only 60% of the vote.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	PAP	pap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	experienced	experience	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
6	electoral	electoral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	performance	performance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	2011	2011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	securing	secure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **experience** | past | the PAP | PAP's worst electoral performance |  | 2011 |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer performance=Stimulus |
| 2 | **secure** | gerund | the PAP *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition %=Theme |
| 3 | **perform** |  | PAP |  |  |  |  |  | nom performance «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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