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title: Mass transit projects also began construction in 1996, with the LRT… — Metro Manila · tree and pragmatics
description: Mass transit projects also began construction in 1996, with the LRT Line 2 and MRT Line 3 commencing construction in that year. Who acts: Mass transit projects, LRT Line. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Metro Manila» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Metro Manila, sentence 132

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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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Mass transit projects also began construction in 1996, with the LRT Line 2 and MRT Line 3 commencing construction in that year.

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**Who acts:** Mass transit projects, LRT Line · **What happens:** begin, commence · **To what, where:** construction, 1996

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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: who acts (Mass transit projects, 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:Metro_Manila:132
# text = Mass transit projects also began construction in 1996, with the LRT Line 2 and MRT Line 3 commencing construction in that year.
1	Mass	mass	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	transit	transit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	projects	project	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1996	1996	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	LRT	LRT	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	MRT	MRT	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Line	Line	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	_
19	commencing	commence	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
20	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Mass transit projects | construction |  | 1996 |  | with the LRT Line | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent construction=Eventuality with line=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **commence** | gerund | the LRT Line *not said here* | construction |  |  | year |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent construction=Eventuality |

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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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