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title: Located on the eastern shore of Manila Bay on the island of Luzon, i… — Manila · tree and pragmatics
description: Located on the eastern shore of Manila Bay on the island of Luzon, it is classified as a highly urbanized city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Manila» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Manila, sentence 3

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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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Located on the eastern shore of Manila Bay on the island of Luzon, it is classified as a highly urbanized city.

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**What happens:** locate, classify, urbanize · **To what, where:** eastern shore, island

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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: 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:3
# text = Located on the eastern shore of Manila Bay on the island of Luzon, it is classified as a highly urbanized city.
1	Located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Manila	Manila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Luzon	Luzon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	classified	classify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	urbanized	urbanize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **locate** | participle |  |  |  | the eastern shore of Manila Bay on the island of Luzon |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **classify** | present · passive |  | island |  |  |  | as a urbanized city | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as city=Attribute |
| 3 | **urbanize** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | highly *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: 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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