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title: When Arsenio Lacson became the first elected Mayor of Manila in 1952… — Manila · tree and pragmatics
description: When Arsenio Lacson became the first elected Mayor of Manila in 1952, before which all mayors were appointed, Manila underwent a "Golden Age", regaining its pre-war moniker "Pearl of the Orient". Who acts: Arsenio, Manila. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Manila» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Manila, sentence 128

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From Wikipedia, [«Manila»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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When Arsenio Lacson became the first elected Mayor of Manila in 1952, before which all mayors were appointed, Manila underwent a "Golden Age", regaining its pre-war moniker "Pearl of the Orient".

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**Who acts:** Arsenio, Manila · **What happens:** become, elect, appoint, undergo, regain · **To what, where:** 1952, mayors, Golden Age, pre-war moniker

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Manila». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Arsenio, Manila), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Manila:128
# text = When Arsenio Lacson became the first elected Mayor of Manila in 1952, before which all mayors were appointed, Manila underwent a "Golden Age", regaining its pre-war moniker "Pearl of the Orient".
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Arsenio	Arsenio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Lacson	Lacson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
7	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Manila	Manila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1952	1952	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	mayors	mayor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	Manila	Manila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	underwent	undergo	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Age	Age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	regaining	regain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	pre-war	pre-war	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	moniker	moniker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Pearl	Pearl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
35	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Orient	orient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Arsenio |  |  |  |  | in 1952 *result*; the first elected Mayor of Manila *xcomp* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1952=Result |
| 2 | **elect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **appoint** | past · passive |  | all mayors |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **undergo** | past | Manila | a Golden Age |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **regain** | gerund | Manila *not said here* | Mayor's pre-war moniker |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moniker=Theme |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «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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