Metro Manila, sentence 493
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.
Prominent radial roads include the Radial Road 1, composed of Roxas Boulevard and the Manila–Cavite Expressway (Coastal Road) that connects Metro Manila to Cavite, Radial Road 3 or the South Luzon Expressway that connects Metro Manila to Laguna, Radial Road 6, composed of Aurora Boulevard and Marcos Highway that runs up to Rizal and Radial Road 8 or the North Luzon Expressway that serves as the gateway to the north.
Who acts: Prominent radial roads, Radial Road, Luzon Expressway, that · What happens: include, compose, connect, run up, serve · To what, where: Radial Road, Metro Manila, Cavite, Laguna, Rizal
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 (Prominent radial roads, Radial Road, Luzon Expressway, that), 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 | Prominent | prominent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 roads | amod |
| 2 | radial | radial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 roads | amod |
| 3 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 include | nsubj |
| 4 | include | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Road | det |
| 6 | Radial | Radial | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Road | compound |
| 7 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 connects | nsubj |
| 8 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 Road | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 composed | punct |
| 10 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Road | acl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Boulevard | case |
| 12 | Roxas | Roxas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Boulevard | compound |
| 13 | Boulevard | Boulevard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 composed | obl:agent |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Manila | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Manila | det |
| 16 | Manila | Manila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Boulevard | conj |
| 17 | – | – | PUNCT | _ | 18 Cavite | punct |
| 18 | Cavite | Cavite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Manila | conj |
| 19 | Expressway | Expressway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Manila | flat |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 Road | punct |
| 21 | Coastal | coastal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Road | amod |
| 22 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Boulevard | appos |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 Road | punct |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 connects | nsubj |
| 25 | connects | connect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 include | ccomp |
| 26 | Metro | Metro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Manila | compound |
| 27 | Manila | Manila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 connects | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Cavite | case |
| 29 | Cavite | Cavite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 connects | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Road | punct |
| 31 | Radial | Radial | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Road | compound |
| 32 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Cavite | appos |
| 33 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 Road | flat |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 Expressway | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Expressway | det |
| 36 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Luzon | compound |
| 37 | Luzon | Luzon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Expressway | compound |
| 38 | Expressway | Expressway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Cavite | conj |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 connects | nsubj |
| 40 | connects | connect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 Expressway | acl:relcl |
| 41 | Metro | Metro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Manila | compound |
| 42 | Manila | Manila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 connects | obj |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 Laguna | case |
| 44 | Laguna | Laguna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 58 runs | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 Road | punct |
| 46 | Radial | Radial | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Road | compound |
| 47 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Laguna | appos |
| 48 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 47 Road | flat |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 composed | punct |
| 50 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 Road | acl |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 Boulevard | case |
| 52 | Aurora | Aurora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 Boulevard | compound |
| 53 | Boulevard | Boulevard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 composed | obl |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 Marcos | cc |
| 55 | Marcos | Marcos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 Boulevard | conj |
| 56 | Highway | Highway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 55 Marcos | flat |
| 57 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 58 runs | nsubj |
| 58 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 connects | conj |
| 59 | up | up | ADP | _ | 58 runs | compound:prt |
| 60 | to | to | ADP | _ | 61 Rizal | case |
| 61 | Rizal | Rizal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 72 serves | obl |
| 62 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 64 Road | cc |
| 63 | Radial | Radial | PROPN | Number=Sing | 64 Road | compound |
| 64 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 61 Rizal | conj |
| 65 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 64 Road | flat |
| 66 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 70 Expressway | cc |
| 67 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 70 Expressway | det |
| 68 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 69 Luzon | compound |
| 69 | Luzon | Luzon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 70 Expressway | compound |
| 70 | Expressway | Expressway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 61 Rizal | conj |
| 71 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 72 serves | nsubj |
| 72 | serves | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 58 runs | conj |
| 73 | as | as | ADP | _ | 75 gateway | case |
| 74 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 75 gateway | det |
| 75 | gateway | gateway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 72 serves | obl |
| 76 | to | to | ADP | _ | 78 north | case |
| 77 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 78 north | det |
| 78 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 72 serves | obl |
| 79 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 include | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | present | Prominent radial roads | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | compose | participle | the Radial Road not said here | Roxas Boulevard and the Manila and Cavite obl:agent | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | connect | present | the Radial Road | Metro Manila | Cavite or the Luzon Expressway | that nsubj | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent manila=Patient to cavite=Co-Patient | ||
| 4 | connect | present | the Luzon Expressway | Metro Manila | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manila=Patient | ||||
| 5 | compose | participle | Radial Road not said here | of Aurora Boulevard and Marcos | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | run up | present | that | Laguna | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to laguna=Result | ||||
| 7 | serve | present | that | Rizal and Radial Road or the Luzon Expressway | as the gateway; to the north | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as gateway=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.
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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