Metro Manila, sentence 323
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.
Metro Manila makes it to the "Global Top 30" cities according to property consultancy firm Jones Lang LaSalle, citing its economic scale, vast population, large gross domestic product and BPO specialization as its competitive edge.
Who acts: Metro Manila · What happens: make, accord, cite · To what, where: rate, economic scale
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 (Metro Manila), 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 | Metro | Metro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Manila | compound |
| 2 | Manila | Manila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 makes | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 cities | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cities | det |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Top | punct |
| 8 | Global | global | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Top | amod |
| 9 | Top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cities | compound |
| 10 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 Top | flat |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Top | punct |
| 12 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 makes | obl |
| 13 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 firm | case |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 according | fixed |
| 15 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 firm | compound |
| 16 | consultancy | consultancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 firm | compound |
| 17 | firm | firm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cities | nmod |
| 18 | Jones | Jones | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 firm | appos |
| 19 | Lang | Lang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Jones | flat |
| 20 | LaSalle | LaSalle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Jones | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 citing | punct |
| 22 | citing | cite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 makes | advcl |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 scale | nmod:poss |
| 24 | economic | economic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 scale | amod |
| 25 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 citing | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 population | punct |
| 27 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 population | amod |
| 28 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 scale | appos |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 product | punct |
| 30 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 product | amod |
| 31 | gross | gross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 product | amod |
| 32 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 product | amod |
| 33 | product | product | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 scale | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 specialization | cc |
| 35 | BPO | BPO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 specialization | compound |
| 36 | specialization | specialization | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 scale | conj |
| 37 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 edge | case |
| 38 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 edge | nmod:poss |
| 39 | competitive | competitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 edge | amod |
| 40 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 citing | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Metro Manila | rate | to the Top cities accord property consultancy firm | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | |||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | cite | gerund | Metro Manila not said here | rate's economic scale and large gross domestic product and BPO specialization | as rate's competitive edge | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent scale=Theme as edge=Attribute |
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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