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title: The government has disputed Amnesty's claims, stating that their "po… — Singapore · tree and pragmatics
description: The government has disputed Amnesty's claims, stating that their "position on abolition of the death penalty is by no means uncontested internationally" and that the report contains "grave errors of facts and misrepresentations". Who acts: government, stating, report, Amnesty. A sentence of Wikipedi
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# Singapore, sentence 302

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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 disputed Amnesty's claims, stating that their "position on abolition of the death penalty is by no means uncontested internationally" and that the report contains "grave errors of facts and misrepresentations".

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**Who acts:** government, stating, report, Amnesty, facts · **What happens:** dispute, state, be, uncontest, contain, claim · **To what, where:** claims, grave errors, death penalty · **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, stating, report, Amnesty), 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:302
# text = The government has disputed Amnesty's claims, stating that their "position on abolition of the death penalty is by no means uncontested internationally" and that the report contains "grave errors of facts and misrepresentations".
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	disputed	dispute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	Amnesty	Amnesty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	claims	claim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	stating	state	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	csubj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	abolition	abolition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	penalty	penalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	obl	_	_
23	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
24	uncontested	uncontest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	ccomp	_	_
25	internationally	internationally	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	grave	grave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	errors	error	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	misrepresentations	misrepresentation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dispute** | present · perfect | the government | Amnesty's claims |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **state** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | claims's position on abolition of the death penalty *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | stating |  |  |  |  | by no; mean *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **uncontest** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | internationally *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **contain** | present | the report | grave errors of facts and misrepresentations |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot error=Theme |
| 6 | **claim** |  | Amnesty |  |  |  |  |  | nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **abolish** *in a quote* |  |  | the death penalty |  |  |  |  | nom abolition «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **err** *in a quote* |  | facts |  |  |  |  |  | nom error «act intransitive»: of=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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