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title: Shortly after midnight on February 26, 1986, the Marcos Family fled… — Manila · tree and pragmatics
description: Shortly after midnight on February 26, 1986, the Marcos Family fled Malacañang and were taken to Clark Airbase, after which they went into exile in Honolulu along with some select followers including Fabian Ver and Danding Cojuangco. Who acts: Marcos Family, operations. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ma
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# Manila, sentence 173

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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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Shortly after midnight on February 26, 1986, the Marcos Family fled Malacañang and were taken to Clark Airbase, after which they went into exile in Honolulu along with some select followers including Fabian Ver and Danding Cojuangco.

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**Who acts:** Marcos Family, operations · **What happens:** flee, take, go, include · **To what, where:** Malacañang, exile

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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 (Marcos Family, operations), 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:173
# text = Shortly after midnight on February 26, 1986, the Marcos Family fled Malacañang and were taken to Clark Airbase, after which they went into exile in Honolulu along with some select followers including Fabian Ver and Danding Cojuangco.
1	Shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
6	26	26	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	1986	1986	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Marcos	Marcos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Family	Family	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Malacañang	Malacañang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Clark	Clark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Airbase	airbase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	after	after	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	exile	exile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Honolulu	Honolulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	along	along	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
33	select	select	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
35	including	include	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	case	_	_
36	Fabian	Fabian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Ver	Ver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	Danding	Danding	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
40	Cojuangco	Cojuangco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | past | the Marcos Family | Malacañang |  |  |  | shortly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme malacañang=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **take** | past · passive | the Marcos Family *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Clark Airbase *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: to airbase=Result |
| 3 | **go** | past | operations *= operation* |  |  | exile |  | in Honolulu; along some select followers include Fabian Ver and Danding; which *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into exile=Initial\_Location along follower=Destination |
| 4 | **include** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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