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title: The ground elevation ranges from 20 to 40 m and gradually becomes lo… — Metro Manila · tree and pragmatics
description: The ground elevation ranges from 20 to 40 m and gradually becomes lower towards its western side, while ground elevation ranges from 70 to 100 m towards the northwestern side of the plateau. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Metro Manila» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Metro Manila, sentence 170

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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 ground elevation ranges from 20 to 40 m and gradually becomes lower towards its western side, while ground elevation ranges from 70 to 100 m towards the northwestern side of the plateau.

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**What happens:** become · **To what, where:** elevation ranges

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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:170
# text = The ground elevation ranges from 20 to 40 m and gradually becomes lower towards its western side, while ground elevation ranges from 70 to 100 m towards the northwestern side of the plateau.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	elevation	elevation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ranges	range	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	m	m	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	xcomp	_	_
14	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	elevation	elevation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	ranges	range	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	xcomp	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	m	m	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	northwestern	northwestern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	plateau	plateau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **become** | present |  | elevation ranges from 70 to 100 m towards the northwestern side of the plateau |  |  |  | gradually, low *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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