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description: Filipino Landscape architect IP Santos, the "Father of Philippine Landscape Architecture", was commissioned to do the design of converting the former cemetery into a park. Who acts: design. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Metro Manila» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Metro Manila, sentence 210

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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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Filipino Landscape architect IP Santos, the "Father of Philippine Landscape Architecture", was commissioned to do the design of converting the former cemetery into a park.

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**Who acts:** design · **What happens:** commission, do, convert · **To what, where:** Filipino Landscape architect IP, design, park, former cemetery

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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 (design), 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:210
# text = Filipino Landscape architect IP Santos, the "Father of Philippine Landscape Architecture", was commissioned to do the design of converting the former cemetery into a park.
1	Filipino	Filipino	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	Landscape	Landscape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	architect	architect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	IP	ip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	Santos	Santo	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	Philippine	philippine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Landscape	Landscape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Architecture	architecture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	commissioned	commission	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	design	design	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	converting	convert	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **commission** | past · passive |  | Filipino Landscape architect IP  Santos |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive |  | the design |  | a park |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent design=Eventuality |
| 3 | **convert** | gerund | the design *not said here* | the former cemetery |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cemetery=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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