Manila, sentence 497
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 city has an ordinance penalizing cat-calling since 2018, and is the second city in the Philippines to do so after Quezon City, which passed a similar ordinance in 2016.
Who acts: city, ordinance, Quezon City · What happens: have, penalize, call, be, do, pass · To what, where: ordinance, second city, Philippines, similar ordinance, 2016 · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (city, ordinance, Quezon City), 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 | 2 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ordinance | det |
| 5 | ordinance | ordinance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | penalizing | penalize | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 ordinance | acl |
| 7 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 calling | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 cat | punct |
| 9 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 penalizing | conj |
| 10 | since | since | ADP | _ | 11 2018 | case |
| 11 | 2018 | 2018 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 calling | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 city | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 city | cc |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 city | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 city | det |
| 16 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 city | amod |
| 17 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Philippines | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Philippines | det |
| 20 | Philippines | Philippines | PROPN | Number=Ptan | 17 city | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 city | acl |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 do | advmod |
| 24 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 City | case |
| 25 | Quezon | Quezon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 City | compound |
| 26 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 do | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 passed | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 passed | nsubj |
| 29 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 City | acl:relcl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 ordinance | det |
| 31 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 ordinance | amod |
| 32 | ordinance | ordinance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 passed | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 2016 | case |
| 34 | 2016 | 2016 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 passed | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the city | a ordinance | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ordinance=Patient | ||||
| 2 | penalize | gerund | a ordinance not said here | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | call | gerund | a ordinance not said here | since 2018 | cat compound | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | is a | present | the city not said here | the second city | the Philippines | tree rules | |||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | the city not said here | after Quezon City | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | pass | past | Quezon City | a similar ordinance | 2016 | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ordinance=Theme in 2016=Destination |
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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