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title: The type of sand used in reclamation works is found in rivers and be… — Singapore · tree and pragmatics
description: The type of sand used in reclamation works is found in rivers and beaches rather than deserts and remains in great demand worldwide. Who acts: type. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Singapore» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Singapore, sentence 166

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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 type of sand used in reclamation works is found in rivers and beaches rather than deserts and remains in great demand worldwide.

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**Who acts:** type · **What happens:** use, work, find, type · **To what, where:** sand, reclamation, type, rivers

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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 (type), 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:166
# text = The type of sand used in reclamation works is found in rivers and beaches rather than deserts and remains in great demand worldwide.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	reclamation	reclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	beaches	beach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	17	cc	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	remains	remains	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	12	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	demand	demand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
23	worldwide	worldwide	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | participle |  | sand *not said here* |  | reclamation |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **work** | present | the type of sand *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **find** | present · passive |  | the type of sand |  | rivers and beaches rather deserts and remains |  | in great demand; worldwide *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **type** |  |  | sand |  |  |  |  | nom type «cognition transitive»: of=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, «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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