Metro Manila, sentence 45
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.
On the way home, he met and had an encounter with a Castilian fleet.
Who acts: Rajah · What happens: meet, have · To what, where: way, encounter
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 (Rajah), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 way | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 way | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 met | nsubj |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 had | cc |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 met | conj |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 encounter | det |
| 11 | encounter | encounter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 fleet | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fleet | det |
| 14 | Castilian | castilian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fleet | amod |
| 15 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 encounter | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Rajah | the way | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Rajah not said here | a encounter | with a Castilian fleet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent encounter=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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