Manila, sentence 173
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.
Shortly after midnight on February 26, 1986, the Marcos Family fled Malacañang and were taken to Clark Airbase, after which they went into exile in Honolulu along with some select followers including Fabian Ver and Danding Cojuangco.
Who acts: Marcos Family, operations · What happens: flee, take, go, include · To what, where: Malacañang, exile
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 (Marcos Family, operations), 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 | Shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 13 fled | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 midnight | case |
| 3 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shortly | obl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 26 | case |
| 5 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 26 | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | 26 | 26 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 midnight | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 1986 | punct |
| 8 | 1986 | 1986 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 26 | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Shortly | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Family | det |
| 11 | Marcos | Marcos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Family | compound |
| 12 | Family | Family | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 fled | nsubj |
| 13 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Malacañang | Malacañang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 fled | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 taken | cc |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 taken | aux:pass |
| 17 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 fled | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Airbase | case |
| 19 | Clark | Clark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Airbase | compound |
| 20 | Airbase | airbase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taken | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 went | punct |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 went | obl |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 went | nsubj |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fled | conj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 exile | case |
| 27 | exile | exile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 Honolulu | case |
| 29 | Honolulu | Honolulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 30 | along | along | ADP | _ | 34 followers | case |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 followers | case |
| 32 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 followers | det |
| 33 | select | select | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 followers | amod |
| 34 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 went | obl |
| 35 | including | include | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 Ver | case |
| 36 | Fabian | Fabian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Ver | compound |
| 37 | Ver | Ver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 followers | nmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 Danding | cc |
| 39 | Danding | Danding | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Ver | conj |
| 40 | Cojuangco | Cojuangco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Danding | flat |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | past | the Marcos Family | Malacañang | shortly property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme malacañang=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | take | past · passive | the Marcos Family not said here | to Clark Airbase result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: to airbase=Result | ||||
| 3 | go | past | operations = operation | exile | in Honolulu; along some select followers include Fabian Ver and Danding; which obl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into exile=Initial_Location along follower=Destination | |||
| 4 | include | gerund | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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