Metro Manila, sentence 123
From Wikipedia, «Metro 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.
Mayors in the metropolis chose from among themselves the chair of the agency.
Who acts: Mayors · What happens: choose · To what, where: chair
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: who acts (Mayors), 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 | Mayors | mayor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 chose | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 metropolis | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 metropolis | det |
| 4 | metropolis | metropolis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mayors | nmod |
| 5 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 themselves | case |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 themselves | case |
| 8 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 chose | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chair | det |
| 10 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chose | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 agency | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 agency | det |
| 13 | agency | agency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chair | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past | Mayors in the metropolis | the chair of the agency | from people | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent chair=Theme from themselves=Source |
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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