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title: In the 1960 census, Manila became the first Philippine city to excee… — Manila · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 1960 census, Manila became the first Philippine city to exceed one million people – more than five times of its 1903 population. Who acts: Manila, million people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Manila» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Manila, sentence 337

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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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In the 1960 census, Manila became the first Philippine city to exceed one million people – more than five times of its 1903 population.

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**Who acts:** Manila, million people · **What happens:** become, exceed, – · **To what, where:** first Philippine city, 1960 census

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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 (Manila, million people), 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:337
# text = In the 1960 census, Manila became the first Philippine city to exceed one million people – more than five times of its 1903 population.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	1960	1960	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	census	census	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Manila	Manila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
10	Philippine	philippine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	exceed	exceed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	_
15	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	–	–	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
18	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	20	advmod	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	1903	1903	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Manila | the first Philippine city |  |  |  | in the 1960 census *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in census=Result |
| 2 | **exceed** | to-infinitive | Manila *not said here* | the first Philippine city *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **–** | present | million people |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |

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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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