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title: The PAP occupies a dominant position in Singaporean politics, having… — Singapore · tree and pragmatics
description: The PAP occupies a dominant position in Singaporean politics, having won large parliamentary majorities in every election since self-governance was granted in 1959. Who acts: PAP. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Singapore» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Singapore, sentence 221

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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 occupies a dominant position in Singaporean politics, having won large parliamentary majorities in every election since self-governance was granted in 1959.

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**Who acts:** PAP · **What happens:** occupy, win, grant · **To what, where:** dominant position, Singaporean politics, large parliamentary majorities, election, self governance, 1959

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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:221
# text = The PAP occupies a dominant position in Singaporean politics, having won large parliamentary majorities in every election since self-governance was granted in 1959.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	PAP	pap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	occupies	occupy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	dominant	dominant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Singaporean	Singaporean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	politics	politics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	aux	_	_
12	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
13	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	parliamentary	parliamentary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	majorities	majority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	governance	governance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	1959	1959	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occupy** | present | the PAP | a dominant position |  | Singaporean politics |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus position=Experiencer |
| 2 | **win** | gerund · perfect |  | large parliamentary majorities |  | every election |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent majority=Eventuality |
| 3 | **grant** | past · passive |  | self governance |  | 1959 |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |

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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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