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title: In January 2020, Manila confirmed its first case of COVID-19, a 38-y… — Metro Manila · tree and pragmatics
description: In January 2020, Manila confirmed its first case of COVID-19, a 38-year-old Chinese woman from Wuhan, the origin of the disease, who travelled to the Philippines. Who acts: Manila, disease. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Metro Manila» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Metro Manila, sentence 149

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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 January 2020, Manila confirmed its first case of COVID-19, a 38-year-old Chinese woman from Wuhan, the origin of the disease, who travelled to the Philippines.

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**Who acts:** Manila, disease · **What happens:** confirm, travel · **To what, where:** first case, 2020, Philippines

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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 (Manila, disease), 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:149
# text = In January 2020, Manila confirmed its first case of COVID-19, a 38-year-old Chinese woman from Wuhan, the origin of the disease, who travelled to the Philippines.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
3	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Manila	Manila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	confirmed	confirm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	COVID	COVID	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	19	19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
16	38	38	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Wuhan	Wuhan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Philippines	Philippines	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Ptan	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confirm** | past | Manila | Subway's first case of COVID |  | 2020  January |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot case=Topic |
| 2 | **travel** | past | the disease |  | the Philippines |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to philippines=Destination |

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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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