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title: Among those implemented were business codes and sanitation laws in s… — Metro Manila · tree and pragmatics
description: Among those implemented were business codes and sanitation laws in slum areas in the 1930s. Who acts: those. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Metro Manila» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Metro Manila, sentence 290

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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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Among those implemented were business codes and sanitation laws in slum areas in the 1930s.

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**Who acts:** those · **What happens:** implement, be

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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 (those), 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:290
# text = Among those implemented were business codes and sanitation laws in slum areas in the 1930s.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
3	implemented	implement	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	codes	code	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	sanitation	sanitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	slum	slum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	1930s	1930	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **implement** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | those |  |  |  |  | among business codes and sanitation laws in slum areas in the 1930s; sanitation laws in slum areas in the 1930s *conj* | tree rules |

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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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