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title: Tamil-speaking Singaporeans mostly lean toward Tamil culture, which… — Singapore · tree and pragmatics
description: Tamil-speaking Singaporeans mostly lean toward Tamil culture, which itself is mostly linked to Hindu culture. Who acts: speaking Singaporeans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Singapore» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Singapore, sentence 489

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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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Tamil-speaking Singaporeans mostly lean toward Tamil culture, which itself is mostly linked to Hindu culture.

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**Who acts:** speaking Singaporeans · **What happens:** speak, lean, link · **To what, where:** Tamil culture · **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 (speaking Singaporeans), 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:489
# text = Tamil-speaking Singaporeans mostly lean toward Tamil culture, which itself is mostly linked to Hindu culture.
1	Tamil	Tamil	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	Singaporeans	Singaporean	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	lean	lean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Tamil	Tamil	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	compound	_	_
9	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	linked	link	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Hindu	hindu	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lean** | present | speaking Singaporeans |  |  |  |  | toward Tamil culture; mostly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **link** | present · passive |  | Tamil culture |  |  |  | to Hindu culture; mostly *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to culture=Co-Patient |

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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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