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# Singapore, sentence 406

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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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Prior to 2010, each person could register as a member of only one race, by default that of their father; therefore, mixed-race persons were solely grouped under their father's race in government censuses.

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**Who acts:** person, father · **What happens:** register, mix, group, race · **To what, where:** race persons, race, government censuses

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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 (person, father), 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:406
# text = Prior to 2010, each person could register as a member of only one race, by default that of their father; therefore, mixed-race persons were solely grouped under their father's race in government censuses.
1	Prior	prior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	8	advcl	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	2010	2010	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	register	register	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	default	default	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
24	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
31	solely	solely	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	grouped	group	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
33	under	under	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	censuses	census	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **register** | could | each person |  |  |  |  | as a member of one race *result*; by default of persons's father  default of persons's father  default | vn patent-101 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent as member=Result |
| 2 | **mix** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **group** | past · passive |  | race persons |  | persons's father's race in government censuses |  | solely *property* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **race** |  | persons's father |  |  | government censuses |  |  | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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