Manila, sentence 499
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.
Of the three cities reviewed by the Supreme Court; the City of Manila, Navotas, and Quezon City; only the curfew ordinance of Quezon City was approved.
What happens: review, approve, ordain · To what, where: three cities, Quezon City
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: 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 cities | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cities | det |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 cities | nummod |
| 4 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 approved | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | reviewed | review | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cities | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Court | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Court | det |
| 8 | Supreme | Supreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Court | amod |
| 9 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 reviewed | obl:agent |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 City | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 City | det |
| 12 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 approved | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Manila | case |
| 14 | Manila | Manila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 City | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Navotas | punct |
| 16 | Navotas | Navotas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 City | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 City | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 City | cc |
| 19 | Quezon | Quezon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 City | compound |
| 20 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 City | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 ordinance | punct |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 ordinance | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ordinance | det |
| 24 | curfew | curfew | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ordinance | amod |
| 25 | ordinance | ordinance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 City | appos |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 City | case |
| 27 | Quezon | Quezon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 City | compound |
| 28 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 ordinance | nmod |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 approved | aux:pass |
| 30 | approved | approve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 approved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | review | participle | the three cities not said here | the Supreme Court obl:agent | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | approve | past · passive | the three cities | the City of Manila and Navotas and Quezon City nsubj:pass | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | ordain | Quezon City | nom ordinance «communication 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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