Manila, sentence 128
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.
When Arsenio Lacson became the first elected Mayor of Manila in 1952, before which all mayors were appointed, Manila underwent a "Golden Age", regaining its pre-war moniker "Pearl of the Orient".
Who acts: Arsenio, Manila · What happens: become, elect, appoint, undergo, regain · To what, where: 1952, mayors, Golden Age, pre-war moniker
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 (Arsenio, Manila), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 became | mark |
| 2 | Arsenio | Arsenio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 became | nsubj |
| 3 | Lacson | Lacson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Arsenio | flat |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Mayor | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 Mayor | amod |
| 7 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Mayor | amod |
| 8 | Mayor | Mayor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 became | xcomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Manila | case |
| 10 | Manila | Manila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mayor | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 1952 | case |
| 12 | 1952 | 1952 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 became | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 appointed | punct |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 appointed | obl |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 mayors | det |
| 17 | mayors | mayor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 appointed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 appointed | aux:pass |
| 19 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 became | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 underwent | punct |
| 21 | Manila | Manila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 underwent | nsubj |
| 22 | underwent | undergo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 appointed | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 Age | det |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Age | punct |
| 25 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Age | amod |
| 26 | Age | Age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 underwent | obj |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Age | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 regaining | punct |
| 29 | regaining | regain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 underwent | advcl |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 moniker | nmod:poss |
| 31 | pre-war | pre-war | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 moniker | amod |
| 32 | moniker | moniker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 regaining | obj |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Pearl | punct |
| 34 | Pearl | Pearl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 moniker | appos |
| 35 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 37 Orient | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Orient | det |
| 37 | Orient | orient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Pearl | acl |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Pearl | punct |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Arsenio | in 1952 result; the first elected Mayor of Manila xcomp | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1952=Result | ||||
| 2 | elect | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | appoint | past · passive | all mayors | which obl | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | undergo | past | Manila | a Golden Age | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | regain | gerund | Manila not said here | Mayor's pre-war moniker | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moniker=Theme |
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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