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title: In 1984, the southern section of the line along Taft Avenue was open… — Metro Manila · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1984, the southern section of the line along Taft Avenue was opened. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Metro Manila» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Metro Manila, sentence 118

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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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In 1984, the southern section of the line along Taft Avenue was opened.

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**What happens:** open, section · **To what, where:** southern section, 1984, line

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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:118
# text = In 1984, the southern section of the line along Taft Avenue was opened.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1984	1984	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	section	section	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	along	along	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Taft	Taft	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	Avenue	Avenue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past · passive |  | the southern section of the line along Taft |  | 1984 |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme in 1984=Location |
| 2 | **section** |  |  | the line along Taft |  |  |  |  | nom section «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, «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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