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title: On June 2, 1978, through Presidential Decree No. 1396, the metropoli… — Metro Manila · tree and pragmatics
description: On June 2, 1978, through Presidential Decree No. 1396, the metropolitan area was declared the National Capital Region of the Philippines. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Metro Manila» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Metro Manila, sentence 108

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From Wikipedia, [«Metro Manila»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_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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On June 2, 1978, through Presidential Decree No. 1396, the metropolitan area was declared the National Capital Region of the Philippines.

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**What happens:** declare · **To what, where:** metropolitan area, Presidential Decree

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Metro 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:Metro_Manila:108
# text = On June 2, 1978, through Presidential Decree No. 1396, the metropolitan area was declared the National Capital Region of the Philippines.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
3	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	1978	1978	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Presidential	presidential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Decree	Decree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
10	No.	No.	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	1396	1396	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	metropolitan	metropolitan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	declared	declare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	Capital	Capital	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Region	Region	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Philippines	Philippines	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Ptan	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | the metropolitan area |  | Presidential Decree | june | the National Capital Region of the Philippines *obj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme region=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, «Metro 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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