Metro Manila, sentence 108
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On June 2, 1978, through Presidential Decree No. 1396, the metropolitan area was declared the National Capital Region of the Philippines.
What happens: declare · To what, where: metropolitan area, Presidential Decree
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Metro 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.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 June | case |
| 2 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 declared | obl |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 June | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 1978 | punct |
| 5 | 1978 | 1978 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 June | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 June | punct |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 Decree | case |
| 8 | Presidential | presidential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Decree | amod |
| 9 | Decree | Decree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 declared | obl |
| 10 | No. | No. | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 9 Decree | flat |
| 11 | 1396 | 1396 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 No. | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Decree | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 area | det |
| 14 | metropolitan | metropolitan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 area | compound |
| 15 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 declared | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 declared | aux:pass |
| 17 | declared | declare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Region | det |
| 19 | National | National | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Region | amod |
| 20 | Capital | Capital | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Region | compound |
| 21 | Region | Region | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 declared | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Philippines | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Philippines | det |
| 24 | Philippines | Philippines | PROPN | Number=Ptan | 21 Region | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past · passive | the metropolitan area | Presidential Decree | june | the National Capital Region of the Philippines obj | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme region=Attribute |
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