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title: Legislature: The Singapore Parliament is unicameral and, together wi… — Singapore · tree and pragmatics
description: Legislature: The Singapore Parliament is unicameral and, together with the president, comprises the legislature. Who acts: Singapore Parliament, Legislature. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Singapore» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Singapore, sentence 197

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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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Legislature: The Singapore Parliament is unicameral and, together with the president, comprises the legislature.

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**Who acts:** Singapore Parliament, Legislature · **What happens:** be, comprise · **To what, where:** legislature

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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 Parliament, Legislature), 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:197
# text = Legislature: The Singapore Parliament is unicameral and, together with the president, comprises the legislature.
1	Legislature	legislature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	unicameral	unicameral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	together	together	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
15	comprises	comprise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	legislature	legislature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Singapore Parliament |  |  |  |  | with the president; unicameral *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **comprise** | present | Legislature | the legislature |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme legislature=Pivot |

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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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