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title: Considered too small to provide effective security for the new count… — Singapore · tree and pragmatics
description: Considered too small to provide effective security for the new country, the development of its military forces became a priority. Who acts: military forces. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Singapore» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Singapore, sentence 270

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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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Considered too small to provide effective security for the new country, the development of its military forces became a priority.

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**Who acts:** military forces · **What happens:** consider, provide, become · **To what, where:** effective security, priority

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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 (military forces), 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:270
# text = Considered too small to provide effective security for the new country, the development of its military forces became a priority.
1	Considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	effective	effective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:agent	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	priority	priority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | the development *obl:agent*; small *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **provide** | to-infinitive |  | effective security |  |  |  | for the new country | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition security=Theme for country=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **become** | past | country's military forces | a priority |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient development=Result |

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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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