Manila, sentence 430
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.
Binondo, the oldest Chinatown in the world, is the city's center of commerce and trade for all types of businesses run by Filipino-Chinese merchants, with a wide variety of shops and restaurants.
Who acts: Binondo · What happens: be, run, type · To what, where: center, businesses
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 (Binondo), 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 | Binondo | Binondo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 center | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Chinatown | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Chinatown | det |
| 4 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 Chinatown | amod |
| 5 | Chinatown | Chinatown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Binondo | appos |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 world | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Chinatown | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Binondo | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 center | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 city | det |
| 12 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 center | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 city | case |
| 14 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 commerce | case |
| 16 | commerce | commerce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 center | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 trade | cc |
| 18 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 commerce | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 types | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 types | det |
| 21 | types | type | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 center | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 businesses | case |
| 23 | businesses | business | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 types | nmod |
| 24 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 businesses | acl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 merchants | case |
| 26 | Filipino | Filipino | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 merchants | amod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Filipino | punct |
| 28 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 merchants | amod |
| 29 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 run | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 variety | punct |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 variety | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 variety | det |
| 33 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 variety | amod |
| 34 | variety | variety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 center | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 shops | case |
| 36 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 variety | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 restaurants | cc |
| 38 | restaurants | restaurant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 shops | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 center | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Binondo | the city's center and a wide variety of shops and restaurants | of commerce and trade; for all types of businesses; the city nmod:poss; a wide variety of shops and restaurants conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | run | participle | businesses not said here | by Filipino Chinese merchants | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by merchant=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | type | businesses | nom type «cognition transitive»: 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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