Metro Manila, sentence 132
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.
Mass transit projects also began construction in 1996, with the LRT Line 2 and MRT Line 3 commencing construction in that year.
Who acts: Mass transit projects, LRT Line · What happens: begin, commence · To what, where: construction, 1996
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 (Mass transit projects, LRT Line), 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 | Mass | mass | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 projects | amod |
| 2 | transit | transit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 projects | compound |
| 3 | projects | project | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 began | nsubj |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 began | advmod |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1996 | case |
| 8 | 1996 | 1996 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 began | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Line | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 Line | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Line | det |
| 12 | LRT | LRT | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Line | compound |
| 13 | Line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | obl |
| 14 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 Line | flat |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Line | cc |
| 16 | MRT | MRT | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Line | compound |
| 17 | Line | Line | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Line | appos |
| 18 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 Line | flat |
| 19 | commencing | commence | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 Line | acl |
| 20 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 commencing | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 year | case |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 year | det |
| 23 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 commencing | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Mass transit projects | construction | 1996 | with the LRT Line | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent construction=Eventuality with line=Subeventuality | ||
| 2 | commence | gerund | the LRT Line not said here | construction | year | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent construction=Eventuality |
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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