Metro Manila, sentence 170
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 ground elevation ranges from 20 to 40 m and gradually becomes lower towards its western side, while ground elevation ranges from 70 to 100 m towards the northwestern side of the plateau.
What happens: become · To what, where: elevation ranges
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.
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 | 4 ranges | det |
| 2 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 elevation | compound |
| 3 | elevation | elevation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ranges | compound |
| 4 | ranges | range | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 m | case |
| 6 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 m | nummod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 40 | case |
| 8 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 20 | nmod |
| 9 | m | m | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ranges | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 becomes | cc |
| 11 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 12 becomes | advmod |
| 12 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ranges | conj |
| 13 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 becomes | xcomp |
| 14 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 17 side | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 side | nmod:poss |
| 16 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 side | amod |
| 17 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lower | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ranges | punct |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 ranges | mark |
| 20 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 elevation | compound |
| 21 | elevation | elevation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ranges | compound |
| 22 | ranges | range | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 becomes | xcomp |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 70 | case |
| 24 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 ranges | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 m | case |
| 26 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 m | nummod |
| 27 | m | m | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 70 | nmod |
| 28 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 31 side | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 side | det |
| 30 | northwestern | northwestern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 side | amod |
| 31 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 70 | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 plateau | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 plateau | det |
| 34 | plateau | plateau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 side | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ranges | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present | elevation ranges from 70 to 100 m towards the northwestern side of the plateau | gradually, low property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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