Metro Manila, sentence 53
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.
Miguel López de Legazpi declared the area of Manila as the new capital of the Spanish colony on June 24, 1571, because of its strategic location and rich resources.
Who acts: Miguel · What happens: declare · To what, where: area
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 (Miguel), 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 | Miguel | Miguel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 declared | nsubj |
| 2 | López | López | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Miguel | flat |
| 3 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Miguel | flat |
| 4 | Legazpi | Legazpi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Miguel | flat |
| 5 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 area | det |
| 7 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 declared | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Manila | case |
| 9 | Manila | Manila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 area | nmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 capital | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 capital | det |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 capital | amod |
| 13 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 declared | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 colony | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 colony | det |
| 16 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 colony | amod |
| 17 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 capital | nmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 24 | case |
| 19 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 24 | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 colony | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 1571 | punct |
| 22 | 1571 | 1571 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 24 | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 location | punct |
| 24 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 28 location | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 because | fixed |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 location | nmod:poss |
| 27 | strategic | strategic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 location | amod |
| 28 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 declared | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 resources | cc |
| 30 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 resources | amod |
| 31 | resources | resource | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 location | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | Miguel | the area of Manila | as the new capital of the Spanish colony on 24 June; capital's strategic location and rich resources parataxis | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent area=Theme as capital=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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