Manila, sentence 121
From Wikipedia, «Manila», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Every time we walk through the streets of Manila, we are treading upon the dust of several different cities that have flourished and perished on this same site.
Who acts: we, several different cities · What happens: walk, tread, flourish, perish · To what, where: streets, dust, same site
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Manila». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, several different cities), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walk | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 walk | nsubj |
| 4 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 streets | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 streets | det |
| 7 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 walk | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Manila | case |
| 9 | Manila | Manila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 streets | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 treading | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 treading | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 treading | aux |
| 13 | treading | tread | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 walk | advcl |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 dust | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dust | det |
| 16 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 treading | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 cities | case |
| 18 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cities | amod |
| 19 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cities | amod |
| 20 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 dust | nmod |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 flourished | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 flourished | aux |
| 23 | flourished | flourish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 cities | acl:relcl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 perished | cc |
| 25 | perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 flourished | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 site | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 site | det |
| 28 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 site | amod |
| 29 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 perished | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | we | the streets of Manila | time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | tread | present · progressive | we | the dust of several different cities | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon dust=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | flourish | present · perfect | several different cities | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | perish | participle | several different cities not said here | this same site | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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