--- title: Along with the establishment of the National Housing Authority (Phil… — Metro Manila · tree and pragmatics description: Along with the establishment of the National Housing Authority (Philippines), Presidential Decree 772 made squatting a crime, making the Philippines one of only two countries (the other is South Africa) where squatting is a crime. Who acts: Presidential, other. 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Along with the establishment of the National Housing Authority (Philippines), Presidential Decree 772 made squatting a crime, making the Philippines one of only two countries (the other is South Africa) where squatting is a crime. **Who acts:** Presidential, other · **What happens:** make, squat, be, establish · **To what, where:** crime, South Africa, National Housing Authority 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 (Presidential, other), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:297 # text = Along with the establishment of the National Housing Authority (Philippines), Presidential Decree 772 made squatting a crime, making the Philippines one of only two countries (the other is South Africa) where squatting is a crime. 1 Along along ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 with with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 establishment establishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 National National ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 Housing Housing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Authority Authority PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Philippines Philippines PROPN NNPS Number=Ptan 9 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 14 Presidential Presidential ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 17 nsubj _ _ 15 Decree Decree PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ _ 16 772 772 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 list _ _ 17 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 squatting squat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 xcomp _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 crime crime NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Philippines Philippines PROPN NNPS Number=Ptan 25 nsubj _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 xcomp _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 only only ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 30 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 37 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 41 advmod _ _ 38 squatting squat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 nsubj _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 crime crime NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | Presidential | | | | | along the establishment of the National Housing Authority | tree rules | | 2 | **squat** | gerund | Presidential *not said here* | a crime | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme crime=Location | | 3 | **make** | gerund | Presidential *not said here* | | | | | one the Philippines of two countries *xcomp* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **is a** | present | the other | South Africa and a crime | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **squat** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | present | | a crime | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **establish** | | | the National Housing Authority | | | | | nom establishment «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 296](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Metro_Manila/296/) - next →: [sentence 298](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Metro_Manila/298/) - ↑ back to [Metro Manila](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Metro_Manila/)