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title: The Pasig River flows through the middle of Manila, dividing it into… — Manila · tree and pragmatics
description: The Pasig River flows through the middle of Manila, dividing it into northern and southern sections. Who acts: Pasig River. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Manila» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Manila, sentence 14

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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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The Pasig River flows through the middle of Manila, dividing it into northern and southern sections.

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**Who acts:** Pasig River · **What happens:** flow, divide · **To what, where:** middle, River, northern sections

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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 (Pasig River), 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:14
# text = The Pasig River flows through the middle of Manila, dividing it into northern and southern sections.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Pasig	Pasig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flows	flow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Manila	Manila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	dividing	divide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	sections	section	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flow** | present | the Pasig River |  |  | the middle of Manila |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through middle=Location |
| 2 | **divide** | gerund | the Pasig River *not said here* | River |  | northern sections |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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