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title: The famed Manila Metropolitan Theater, also known as The Met, was co… — Metro Manila · tree and pragmatics
description: The famed Manila Metropolitan Theater, also known as The Met, was constructed in 1931 and was known as the "Grand Dame" among all the Art Deco theaters of Manila. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Metro Manila» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Metro Manila, sentence 403

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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 famed Manila Metropolitan Theater, also known as The Met, was constructed in 1931 and was known as the "Grand Dame" among all the Art Deco theaters of Manila.

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**What happens:** fame, know, construct · **To what, where:** famed Metropolitan Theater, 1931

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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:403
# text = The famed Manila Metropolitan Theater, also known as The Met, was constructed in 1931 and was known as the "Grand Dame" among all the Art Deco theaters of Manila.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	famed	fame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
3	Manila	Manila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Metropolitan	Metropolitan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Theater	Theater	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Met	Met	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	constructed	construct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1931	1931	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Grand	Grand	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	among	among	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	Art	Art	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Deco	Deco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	theaters	theater	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Manila	Manila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fame** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  | the famed Metropolitan Theater *not said here* |  |  |  | as the Met | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as met=Attribute |
| 3 | **construct** | past · passive |  | the famed Metropolitan Theater |  | 1931 |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 4 | **know** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | as the Grand Dame; among all Deco theaters of Manila | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as dame=Attribute |

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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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