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title: Of the three cities reviewed by the Supreme Court; the City of Manil… — Manila · tree and pragmatics
description: Of the three cities reviewed by the Supreme Court; the City of Manila, Navotas, and Quezon City; only the curfew ordinance of Quezon City was approved. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Manila» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Manila, sentence 499

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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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Of the three cities reviewed by the Supreme Court; the City of Manila, Navotas, and Quezon City; only the curfew ordinance of Quezon City was approved.

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**What happens:** review, approve, ordain · **To what, where:** three cities, Quezon City

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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:499
# text = Of the three cities reviewed by the Supreme Court; the City of Manila, Navotas, and Quezon City; only the curfew ordinance of Quezon City was approved.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	reviewed	review	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Supreme	Supreme	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Manila	Manila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Navotas	Navotas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	Quezon	Quezon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	curfew	curfew	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	ordinance	ordinance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	Quezon	Quezon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	approved	approve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **review** | participle |  | the three cities *not said here* |  |  |  | the Supreme Court *obl:agent* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **approve** | past · passive |  | the three cities |  |  |  | the City of Manila and Navotas and Quezon City *nsubj:pass* | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **ordain** |  |  | Quezon City |  |  |  |  | nom ordinance «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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