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title: Live-in foreign domestic workers are quite common in Singapore, with… — Singapore · tree and pragmatics
description: Live-in foreign domestic workers are quite common in Singapore, with about 224,500 foreign domestic workers there, as of December 2013. Who acts: Live foreign domestic workers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Singapore» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Singapore, sentence 416

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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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Live-in foreign domestic workers are quite common in Singapore, with about 224,500 foreign domestic workers there, as of December 2013.

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**Who acts:** Live foreign domestic workers · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Singapore

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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 (Live foreign domestic workers), 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:416
# text = Live-in foreign domestic workers are quite common in Singapore, with about 224,500 foreign domestic workers there, as of December 2013.
1	Live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	224,500	224,500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
16	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	24	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:unmarked	_	_
24	2013	2013	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Live foreign domestic workers |  |  | Singapore |  | as 2013  December; 224,500 foreign domestic workers *nsubj*; common *property* | tree rules |

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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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