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title: The Coastal Margin or Lowland is a flat and low plain that faces Man… — Metro Manila · tree and pragmatics
description: The Coastal Margin or Lowland is a flat and low plain that faces Manila Bay. Who acts: Coastal Margin, flat plain. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Metro Manila» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Metro Manila, sentence 165

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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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The Coastal Margin or Lowland is a flat and low plain that faces Manila Bay.

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**Who acts:** Coastal Margin, flat plain · **What happens:** be, face · **To what, where:** flat plain, Manila Bay

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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 (Coastal Margin, flat plain), 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:165
# text = The Coastal Margin or Lowland is a flat and low plain that faces Manila Bay.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Margin	Margin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Lowland	Lowland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	faces	face	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	Manila	Manila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Coastal Margin or Lowland | a flat plain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **face** | present | a flat plain |  | Manila Bay |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bay=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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