--- title: Prominent radial roads include the Radial Road 1, composed of Roxas… — Metro Manila · tree and pragmatics description: Prominent radial roads include the Radial Road 1, composed of Roxas Boulevard and the Manila–Cavite Expressway (Coastal Road) that connects Metro Manila to Cavite, Radial Road 3 or the South Luzon Expressway that connects Metro Manila to Laguna, Radial Road 6, composed of Aurora Boulevard and Marcos --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Metro_Manila/493/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Metro Manila](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Metro_Manila/) / 493 # Metro Manila, sentence 493 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. Prominent radial roads include the Radial Road 1, composed of Roxas Boulevard and the Manila–Cavite Expressway (Coastal Road) that connects Metro Manila to Cavite, Radial Road 3 or the South Luzon Expressway that connects Metro Manila to Laguna, Radial Road 6, composed of Aurora Boulevard and Marcos Highway that runs up to Rizal and Radial Road 8 or the North Luzon Expressway that serves as the gateway to the north. **Who acts:** Prominent radial roads, Radial Road, Luzon Expressway, that · **What happens:** include, compose, connect, run up, serve · **To what, where:** Radial Road, Metro Manila, Cavite, Laguna, Rizal 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 (Prominent radial roads, Radial Road, Luzon Expressway, that), 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:493 # text = Prominent radial roads include the Radial Road 1, composed of Roxas Boulevard and the Manila–Cavite Expressway (Coastal Road) that connects Metro Manila to Cavite, Radial Road 3 or the South Luzon Expressway that connects Metro Manila to Laguna, Radial Road 6, composed of Aurora Boulevard and Marcos Highway that runs up to Rizal and Radial Road 8 or the North Luzon Expressway that serves as the gateway to the north. 1 Prominent prominent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 radial radial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 include include VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Radial Radial PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Road Road PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 8 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 composed compose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 Roxas Roxas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Boulevard Boulevard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl:agent _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Manila Manila PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 – – PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 Cavite Cavite PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 Expressway Expressway PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Coastal coastal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 Road Road PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 connects connect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 26 Metro Metro PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 Manila Manila PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Cavite Cavite PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 Radial Radial PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 Road Road PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 appos _ _ 33 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 flat _ _ 34 or or CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 Luzon Luzon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 Expressway Expressway PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 39 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 connects connect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 41 Metro Metro PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 Manila Manila PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 Laguna Laguna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 Radial Radial PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 Road Road PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 appos _ _ 48 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 47 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 50 composed compose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 acl _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 Aurora Aurora PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 compound _ _ 53 Boulevard Boulevard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 obl _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 55 Marcos Marcos PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 conj _ _ 56 Highway Highway PROPN NNP Number=Sing 55 flat _ _ 57 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 58 nsubj _ _ 58 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 conj _ _ 59 up up ADP RP _ 58 compound:prt _ _ 60 to to ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 61 Rizal Rizal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 72 obl _ _ 62 and and CCONJ CC _ 64 cc _ _ 63 Radial Radial PROPN NNP Number=Sing 64 compound _ _ 64 Road Road PROPN NNP Number=Sing 61 conj _ _ 65 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 64 flat _ _ 66 or or CCONJ CC _ 70 cc _ _ 67 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 70 det _ _ 68 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 69 compound _ _ 69 Luzon Luzon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 70 compound _ _ 70 Expressway Expressway PROPN NNP Number=Sing 61 conj _ _ 71 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 72 nsubj _ _ 72 serves serve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 58 conj _ _ 73 as as ADP IN _ 75 case _ _ 74 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 75 det _ _ 75 gateway gateway NOUN NN Number=Sing 72 obl _ _ 76 to to ADP IN _ 78 case _ _ 77 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 78 det _ _ 78 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 72 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 79 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **include** | present | Prominent radial roads | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **compose** | participle | | the Radial Road *not said here* | | | | Roxas Boulevard and the Manila and Cavite *obl:agent* | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **connect** | present | the Radial Road | Metro Manila | Cavite or the Luzon Expressway | | | that *nsubj* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent manila=Patient to cavite=Co-Patient | | 4 | **connect** | present | the Luzon Expressway | Metro Manila | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manila=Patient | | 5 | **compose** | participle | | Radial Road *not said here* | | | | of Aurora Boulevard and Marcos | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **run up** | present | that | | Laguna | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to laguna=Result | | 7 | **serve** | present | that | | Rizal and Radial Road or the Luzon Expressway | | | as the gateway; to the north | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as gateway=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 492](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Metro_Manila/492/) - next →: [sentence 494](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Metro_Manila/494/) - ↑ back to [Metro Manila](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Metro_Manila/)