Metro Manila, sentence 297
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.
Along with the establishment of the National Housing Authority (Philippines), Presidential Decree 772 made squatting a crime, making the Philippines one of only two countries (the other is South Africa) where squatting is a crime.
Who acts: Presidential, other · What happens: make, squat, be, establish · To what, where: crime, South Africa, National Housing Authority
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 (Presidential, other), 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 | Along | along | ADP | _ | 4 establishment | case |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 establishment | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 establishment | det |
| 4 | establishment | establishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Authority | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Authority | det |
| 7 | National | National | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Authority | amod |
| 8 | Housing | Housing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Authority | compound |
| 9 | Authority | Authority | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 establishment | nmod |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 Philippines | punct |
| 11 | Philippines | Philippines | PROPN | Number=Ptan | 9 Authority | appos |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 Philippines | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 establishment | punct |
| 14 | Presidential | Presidential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 made | nsubj |
| 15 | Decree | Decree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Presidential | flat |
| 16 | 772 | 772 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 Presidential | list |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | squatting | squat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 made | xcomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 crime | det |
| 20 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 squatting | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 making | punct |
| 22 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 squatting | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Philippines | det |
| 24 | Philippines | Philippines | PROPN | Number=Ptan | 25 one | nsubj |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 making | xcomp |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 countries | case |
| 27 | only | only | ADV | _ | 28 two | advmod |
| 28 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 countries | nummod |
| 29 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 one | nmod |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 Africa | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 other | det |
| 32 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Africa | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 Africa | cop |
| 34 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Africa | compound |
| 35 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 countries | nmod |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 Africa | punct |
| 37 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 41 crime | advmod |
| 38 | squatting | squat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 crime | nsubj |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 crime | cop |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 crime | det |
| 41 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Africa | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Presidential | along the establishment of the National Housing Authority | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | squat | gerund | Presidential not said here | a crime | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme crime=Location | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | Presidential not said here | one the Philippines of two countries xcomp | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the other | South Africa and a crime | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | squat | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | is a | present | a crime | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | establish | the National Housing Authority | nom establishment «act transitive»: of=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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Metro Manila», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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