--- title: Singapore's unique combination of a strong, soft-authoritarian gover… — Singapore · tree and pragmatics description: Singapore's unique combination of a strong, soft-authoritarian government with an emphasis on meritocracy is known as the "Singapore model", and is regarded as a key factor behind Singapore's political stability, economic growth, and harmonious social order. 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Singapore's unique combination of a strong, soft-authoritarian government with an emphasis on meritocracy is known as the "Singapore model", and is regarded as a key factor behind Singapore's political stability, economic growth, and harmonious social order. **What happens:** know, regard · **To what, where:** unique combination, harmonious social order 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:241 # text = Singapore's unique combination of a strong, soft-authoritarian government with an emphasis on meritocracy is known as the "Singapore model", and is regarded as a key factor behind Singapore's political stability, economic growth, and harmonious social order. 1 Singapore Singapore PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 unique unique ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 combination combination NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 7 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 authoritarian authoritarian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 emphasis emphasis NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 meritocracy meritocracy NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 20 as as ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 Singapore Singapore PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 model model NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 regarded regard VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ _ 30 as as ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 key key ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 factor factor NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 behind behind ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 Singapore Singapore PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 36 's 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 political political ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 stability stability NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 economic economic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 growth growth NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 44 harmonious harmonious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 45 social social ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | present · passive | | Singapore's unique combination of a strong authoritarian government with a emphasis on meritocracy | | | | as the Singapore model | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as model=Attribute | | 2 | **regard** | present · passive | | harmonious social order | | | | as a key factor behind Singapore's political stability and economic growth | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: as factor=Value | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 240](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Singapore/240/) - next →: [sentence 242](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Singapore/242/) - ↑ back to [Singapore](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Singapore/)