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title: Meralco Manila played in the Philippines Football League and designa… — Manila · tree and pragmatics
description: Meralco Manila played in the Philippines Football League and designated Rizal Memorial Stadium as their home ground. Who acts: Meralco. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Manila» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Manila, sentence 470

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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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Meralco Manila played in the Philippines Football League and designated Rizal Memorial Stadium as their home ground.

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**Who acts:** Meralco · **What happens:** play, designate · **To what, where:** Rizal

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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 (Meralco), 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:470
# text = Meralco Manila played in the Philippines Football League and designated Rizal Memorial Stadium as their home ground.
1	Meralco	Meralco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Manila	Manila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Philippines	Philippines	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Ptan	8	compound	_	_
7	Football	Football	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	League	League	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	designated	designate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	Rizal	Rizal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	Memorial	Memorial	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	Stadium	Stadium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | Meralco |  |  |  |  | in the Philippines Football League | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **designate** | past | Meralco *not said here* | Rizal |  |  |  | as leagues's home ground | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent rizal=Theme as ground=Attribute |

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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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