Metro Manila, sentence 211
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.
Manila Zoo is the oldest zoo in Asia, which was founded in 1959.
Who acts: Manila Zoo · What happens: be, found · To what, where: oldest zoo, Asia, 1959
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 (Manila Zoo), 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 | Manila | Manila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Zoo | compound |
| 2 | Zoo | Zoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 zoo | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 zoo | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 zoo | det |
| 5 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 zoo | amod |
| 6 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Asia | case |
| 8 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 zoo | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 founded | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 founded | aux:pass |
| 12 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 zoo | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 1959 | case |
| 14 | 1959 | 1959 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 founded | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 zoo | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Manila Zoo | the oldest zoo | Asia | tree rules | |||
| 2 | found | past · passive | the oldest zoo | 1959 | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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