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title: Despite its name, LRT-1 operates as a light metro, running on dedica… — Manila · tree and pragmatics
description: Despite its name, LRT-1 operates as a light metro, running on dedicated rights-of-way. Who acts: LRT, line. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Manila» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Manila, sentence 543

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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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Despite its name, LRT-1 operates as a light metro, running on dedicated rights-of-way.

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**Who acts:** LRT, line · **What happens:** operate, run, name · **To what, where:** dedicated rights

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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 (LRT, line), 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:543
# text = Despite its name, LRT-1 operates as a light metro, running on dedicated rights-of-way.
1	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	LRT	LRT	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
8	operates	operate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	metro	metro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	dedicated	dedicated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **operate** | present | LRT |  |  |  |  | despite line's name; as a light metro | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | LRT *not said here* |  |  | dedicated rights of way |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on right=Trajectory |
| 3 | **name** |  | line |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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