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title: The Metro Manila area is also home to a number of rugby union teams… — Metro Manila · tree and pragmatics
description: The Metro Manila area is also home to a number of rugby union teams such as the Alabang Eagles, Makati Mavericks, Manila Nomads Sports Club and the Manila Hapons. Who acts: Manila area. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Metro Manila» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Metro Manila, sentence 421

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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 Metro Manila area is also home to a number of rugby union teams such as the Alabang Eagles, Makati Mavericks, Manila Nomads Sports Club and the Manila Hapons.

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**Who acts:** Manila area · **What happens:** 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 (Manila area), 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:421
# text = The Metro Manila area is also home to a number of rugby union teams such as the Alabang Eagles, Makati Mavericks, Manila Nomads Sports Club and the Manila Hapons.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Metro	Metro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Manila	Manila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	home	home	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	rugby	rugby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	union	union	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	teams	team	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Alabang	Alabang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Eagles	Eagle	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	Makati	Makati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Mavericks	maverick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Manila	Manila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
25	Nomads	Nomads	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Sports	Sport	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	compound	_	_
27	Club	Club	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Manila	Manila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Hapons	Hapons	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Manila area |  |  |  |  | to a number; of union teams such the Alabang Eagles and Makati Mavericks; home *property* | 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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