Manila, sentence 337
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.
In the 1960 census, Manila became the first Philippine city to exceed one million people – more than five times of its 1903 population.
Who acts: Manila, million people · What happens: become, exceed, – · To what, where: first Philippine city, 1960 census
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 (Manila, million people), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 census | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 census | det |
| 3 | 1960 | 1960 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 census | nummod |
| 4 | census | census | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 became | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 census | punct |
| 6 | Manila | Manila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 became | nsubj |
| 7 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 city | det |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 city | amod |
| 10 | Philippine | philippine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 city | amod |
| 11 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 became | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 exceed | mark |
| 13 | exceed | exceed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 city | acl |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 million | compound |
| 15 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 people | nummod |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 – | nsubj |
| 17 | – | – | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 exceed | ccomp |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 20 five | advmod |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 more | fixed |
| 20 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 times | nummod |
| 21 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 – | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 population | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 population | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 1903 | 1903 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 population | nummod |
| 25 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 times | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Manila | the first Philippine city | in the 1960 census result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in census=Result | |||
| 2 | exceed | to-infinitive | Manila not said here | the first Philippine city not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | – | present | million people | time | tree rules |
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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