--- title: Marcos' declaration of martial law in September 1972 saw the immedia… — Manila · tree and pragmatics description: Marcos' declaration of martial law in September 1972 saw the immediate shutdown of all media not approved by Marcos, including Quezon City media outlets, including the Manila-based Manila Times, Philippines Free Press, The Manila Tribune and the Philippines Herald. Who acts: declaration, Marcos. 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Marcos' declaration of martial law in September 1972 saw the immediate shutdown of all media not approved by Marcos, including Quezon City media outlets, including the Manila-based Manila Times, Philippines Free Press, The Manila Tribune and the Philippines Herald. **Who acts:** declaration, Marcos · **What happens:** see, not approve, base, declare · **To what, where:** immediate shutdown, media, martial law 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 (declaration, Marcos), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Manila:148 # text = Marcos' declaration of martial law in September 1972 saw the immediate shutdown of all media not approved by Marcos, including Quezon City media outlets, including the Manila-based Manila Times, Philippines Free Press, The Manila Tribune and the Philippines Herald. 1 Marcos Marcos PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 declaration declaration NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 martial martial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 September September PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 1972 1972 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nmod:unmarked _ _ 10 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 immediate immediate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 shutdown shutdown NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 16 det _ _ 16 media media NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 approved approve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Marcos Marcos PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 including including ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 Quezon Quezon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 media media NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 outlets outlet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 28 including including ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 30 Manila Manila PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 based base VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 amod _ _ 33 Manila Manila PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 Times Times PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 Philippines Philippines PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 amod _ _ 37 Free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 Press Press PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 Manila Manila PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 Tribune Tribune PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 Philippines Philippines PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 Herald Herald PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | Marcos's declaration of martial law in September 1972 | the immediate shutdown of all media | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shutdown=Stimulus | | 2 | **not** **approve** | participle | | all media *not said here* | | | | Marcos *obl:agent* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **base** | participle | | | | | | Manila *compound* | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **declare** | | Marcos | martial law in September 1972 | | | | | nom declaration «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | 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, «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. - ← previous: [sentence 147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Manila/147/) - next →: [sentence 149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Manila/149/) - ↑ back to [Manila](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Manila/)