Manila, sentence 14
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.
The Pasig River flows through the middle of Manila, dividing it into northern and southern sections.
Who acts: Pasig River · What happens: flow, divide · To what, where: middle, River, northern sections
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 (Pasig River), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 River | det |
| 2 | Pasig | Pasig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 River | compound |
| 3 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 flows | nsubj |
| 4 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 middle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 middle | det |
| 7 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flows | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Manila | case |
| 9 | Manila | Manila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 middle | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dividing | punct |
| 11 | dividing | divide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 flows | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dividing | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 sections | case |
| 14 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sections | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 southern | cc |
| 16 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 northern | conj |
| 17 | sections | section | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dividing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | present | the Pasig River | the middle of Manila | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through middle=Location | ||||
| 2 | divide | gerund | the Pasig River not said here | River | northern sections | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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