Manila, sentence 148
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.
Marcos' declaration of martial law in September 1972 saw the immediate shutdown of all media not approved by Marcos, including Quezon City media outlets, including the Manila-based Manila Times, Philippines Free Press, The Manila Tribune and the Philippines Herald.
Who acts: declaration, Marcos · What happens: see, not approve, base, declare · To what, where: immediate shutdown, media, martial law
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 (declaration, Marcos), 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 | Marcos | Marcos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 declaration | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 1 Marcos | case |
| 3 | declaration | declaration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 law | case |
| 5 | martial | martial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 law | amod |
| 6 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 declaration | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 September | case |
| 8 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 law | nmod |
| 9 | 1972 | 1972 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 September | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shutdown | det |
| 12 | immediate | immediate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 shutdown | amod |
| 13 | shutdown | shutdown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 media | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 media | det |
| 16 | media | media | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shutdown | nmod |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 approved | advmod |
| 18 | approved | approve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 media | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 Marcos | case |
| 20 | Marcos | Marcos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 approved | obl:agent |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 outlets | punct |
| 22 | including | including | ADP | _ | 26 outlets | case |
| 23 | Quezon | Quezon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 City | compound |
| 24 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 outlets | compound |
| 25 | media | media | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 outlets | compound |
| 26 | outlets | outlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Marcos | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Times | punct |
| 28 | including | including | ADP | _ | 34 Times | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Times | det |
| 30 | Manila | Manila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 based | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Manila | punct |
| 32 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 Times | amod |
| 33 | Manila | Manila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Times | compound |
| 34 | Times | Times | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 outlets | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Press | punct |
| 36 | Philippines | Philippines | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Press | amod |
| 37 | Free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Press | amod |
| 38 | Press | Press | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Times | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Tribune | punct |
| 40 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Tribune | det |
| 41 | Manila | Manila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Tribune | compound |
| 42 | Tribune | Tribune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Times | conj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 Herald | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Herald | det |
| 45 | Philippines | Philippines | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Herald | compound |
| 46 | Herald | Herald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Times | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Marcos's declaration of martial law in September 1972 | the immediate shutdown of all media | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shutdown=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not approve | participle | all media not said here | Marcos obl:agent | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | base | participle | Manila compound | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | declare | Marcos | martial law in September 1972 | nom declaration «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=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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