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title: Miguel López de Legazpi declared the area of Manila as the new capit… — Metro Manila · tree and pragmatics
description: Miguel López de Legazpi declared the area of Manila as the new capital of the Spanish colony on June 24, 1571, because of its strategic location and rich resources. Who acts: Miguel. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Metro Manila» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Metro Manila, sentence 53

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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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Miguel López de Legazpi declared the area of Manila as the new capital of the Spanish colony on June 24, 1571, because of its strategic location and rich resources.

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**Who acts:** Miguel · **What happens:** declare · **To what, where:** area

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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 (Miguel), 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:53
# text = Miguel López de Legazpi declared the area of Manila as the new capital of the Spanish colony on June 24, 1571, because of its strategic location and rich resources.
1	Miguel	Miguel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	López	López	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	Legazpi	Legazpi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
5	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Manila	Manila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:unmarked	_	_
20	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	1571	1571	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	28	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	strategic	strategic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Miguel | the area of Manila |  |  |  | as the new capital of the Spanish colony on 24  June; capital's strategic location and rich resources *parataxis* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent area=Theme as capital=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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