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title: Singapore recognises that climate change and rising sea levels in th… — Singapore · tree and pragmatics
description: Singapore recognises that climate change and rising sea levels in the decades ahead will have major implications for its low-lying coastline. Who acts: Singapore, climate change. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Singapore» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Singapore, sentence 182

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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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Singapore recognises that climate change and rising sea levels in the decades ahead will have major implications for its low-lying coastline.

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**Who acts:** Singapore, climate change · **What happens:** recognise, rise, have, lie · **To what, where:** climate change, sea levels, major implications

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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 (Singapore, climate change), 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:182
# text = Singapore recognises that climate change and rising sea levels in the decades ahead will have major implications for its low-lying coastline.
1	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	recognises	recognise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	levels	level	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	decades	decade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
13	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	implications	implication	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
20	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	amod	_	_
23	coastline	coastline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	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 | **recognise** | present | Singapore | climate change |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer change=Stimulus |
| 2 | **rise** | gerund | climate change *not said here* | sea levels |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location level=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | future |  | major implications |  |  | decade | for change's lying coastline; ahead *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent implication=Patient |
| 4 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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