--- title: Metro Manila makes it to the "Global Top 30" cities according to pro… — Metro Manila · tree and pragmatics description: Metro Manila makes it to the "Global Top 30" cities according to property consultancy firm Jones Lang LaSalle, citing its economic scale, vast population, large gross domestic product and BPO specialization as its competitive edge. Who acts: Metro Manila. 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Metro Manila makes it to the "Global Top 30" cities according to property consultancy firm Jones Lang LaSalle, citing its economic scale, vast population, large gross domestic product and BPO specialization as its competitive edge. **Who acts:** Metro Manila · **What happens:** make, accord, cite · **To what, where:** rate, economic scale 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 (Metro Manila), 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:323 # text = Metro Manila makes it to the "Global Top 30" cities according to property consultancy firm Jones Lang LaSalle, citing its economic scale, vast population, large gross domestic product and BPO specialization as its competitive edge. 1 Metro Metro PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Manila Manila PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Global global ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 Top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 10 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 12 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 13 according accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 case _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 property property NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 consultancy consultancy NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 firm firm NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 18 Jones Jones PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 19 Lang Lang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 flat _ _ 20 LaSalle LaSalle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 citing cite VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 economic economic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 scale scale NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 vast vast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 population population NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 31 gross gross ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 domestic domestic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 product product NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 BPO BPO PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 specialization specialization NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 37 as as ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 competitive competitive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Metro Manila | rate | | | | to the Top cities accord property consultancy firm | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | | 2 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **cite** | gerund | Metro Manila *not said here* | rate's economic scale and large gross domestic product and BPO specialization | | | | as rate's competitive edge | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent scale=Theme as edge=Attribute | 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 322](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Metro_Manila/322/) - next →: [sentence 324](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Metro_Manila/324/) - ↑ back to [Metro Manila](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Metro_Manila/)