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title: Singapore was not greatly affected by the First World War (1914–1918… — Singapore · tree and pragmatics
description: Singapore was not greatly affected by the First World War (1914–1918), as the conflict did not spread to Southeast Asia. Who acts: First World War, conflict. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Singapore» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Singapore, sentence 66

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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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Singapore was not greatly affected by the First World War (1914–1918), as the conflict did not spread to Southeast Asia.

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**Who acts:** First World War, conflict · **What happens:** not affect, not spread · **To what, where:** Singapore, Southeast Asia

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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 (First World War, conflict), 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:66
# text = Singapore was not greatly affected by the First World War (1914–1918), as the conflict did not spread to Southeast Asia.
1	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	affected	affect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
9	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	1914	1914	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	1918	1918	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	Southeast	Southeast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **affect** | past · passive | the First World War | Singapore |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **spread** | past · do-support | the conflict |  | Southeast Asia |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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