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# Singapore, sentence 300

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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 government has responded that it has "no doubts" that it is the right policy and that there is "clear evidence" of serious deterrence, and that the law should be looked at upon in the wider context of "saving lives", particularly citizens.

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**Who acts:** government · **What happens:** respond, have, be, look, save · **To what, where:** doubts, right policy, clear evidence, law, wider context · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (government), 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:300
# text = The government has responded that it has "no doubts" that it is the right policy and that there is "clear evidence" of serious deterrence, and that the law should be looked at upon in the wider context of "saving lives", particularly citizens.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	responded	respond	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	doubts	doubt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	policy	policy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	acl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	deterrence	deterrence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
38	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	wider	wide	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	42	amod	_	_
42	context	context	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	saving	save	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	46	amod	_	_
46	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **respond** *speech: other* | present · perfect | the government |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | present | government | no doubts |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | government | the right policy and clear evidence |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | government *not said here* | clear evidence |  |  |  | of serious deterrence | tree rules |
| 5 | **look** | should · passive |  | the law |  | the wider context of saving lives and citizens |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 6 | **save** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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