Metro Manila, sentence 165
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.
The Coastal Margin or Lowland is a flat and low plain that faces Manila Bay.
Who acts: Coastal Margin, flat plain · What happens: be, face · To what, where: flat plain, Manila Bay
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 (Coastal Margin, flat plain), 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 | 3 Margin | det |
| 2 | Coastal | coastal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Margin | amod |
| 3 | Margin | Margin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 plain | nsubj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 Lowland | cc |
| 5 | Lowland | Lowland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Margin | conj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 plain | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 plain | det |
| 8 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 plain | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 low | cc |
| 10 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 flat | conj |
| 11 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 faces | nsubj |
| 13 | faces | face | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 plain | acl:relcl |
| 14 | Manila | Manila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Bay | compound |
| 15 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 faces | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 plain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Coastal Margin or Lowland | a flat plain | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | face | present | a flat plain | Manila Bay | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bay=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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