Metro Manila, sentence 86
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.
President Manuel L. Quezon, aware of the problems besetting Manila, initiated housing projects called Barrio Obrero (Worker's Community).
Who acts: problems · What happens: beset, initiate, call · To what, where: Manila, initiated housing projects, Manuel · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (problems), 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 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Manuel | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Manuel | Manuel | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | L. | L. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Manuel | flat |
| 4 | Quezon | Quezon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Manuel | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 aware | punct |
| 6 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Manuel | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 problems | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 problems | det |
| 9 | problems | problem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 aware | obl |
| 10 | besetting | beset | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 problems | acl |
| 11 | Manila | Manila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 besetting | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 projects | punct |
| 13 | initiated | initiate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 projects | amod |
| 14 | housing | housing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 projects | compound |
| 15 | projects | project | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 problems | conj |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 projects | acl |
| 17 | Barrio | Barrio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 called | xcomp |
| 18 | Obrero | Obrero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Barrio | flat |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 Community | punct |
| 20 | Worker | Worker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Community | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Worker | case |
| 22 | Community | Community | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Barrio | appos |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 Community | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Manuel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beset | gerund | the problems and initiated housing projects not said here | Manila | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | initiate | participle | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | call | participle | initiated housing projects not said here | Barrio xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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