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title: King Philip II of Spain delighted at the new conquest achieved by Le… — Metro Manila · tree and pragmatics
description: King Philip II of Spain delighted at the new conquest achieved by Legazpi and his men, awarding the city a coat of arms and declaring it as: Ciudad Insigne y Siempre Leal (English: "Distinguished and Ever Loyal City"). Who acts: Philip, Ciudad. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Metro Manila» with its depen
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# Metro Manila, sentence 55

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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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King Philip II of Spain delighted at the new conquest achieved by Legazpi and his men, awarding the city a coat of arms and declaring it as: Ciudad Insigne y Siempre Leal (English: "Distinguished and Ever Loyal City").

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**Who acts:** Philip, Ciudad · **What happens:** delight, achieve, award, declare, y · **To what, where:** new conquest, city, coat, Siempre

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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 (Philip, Ciudad), 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:55
# text = King Philip II of Spain delighted at the new conquest achieved by Legazpi and his men, awarding the city a coat of arms and declaring it as: Ciudad Insigne y Siempre Leal (English: "Distinguished and Ever Loyal City").
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Philip	Philip	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	delighted	delight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	achieved	achieve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Legazpi	Legazpi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	awarding	award	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	declaring	declare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
30	Ciudad	Ciudad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	Insigne	Insigne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	_
32	y	y	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
33	Siempre	Siempre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	Leal	Leal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	_
35	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	Distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	Ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	43	advmod	_	_
42	Loyal	loyal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **delight** | past | Philip  King of Spain |  |  | the new conquest |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **achieve** | participle |  | the new conquest *not said here* |  |  |  | by Legazpi and Spain's men | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **award** | gerund | Philip  King of Spain *not said here* | the city |  |  |  | a coat of arms *obj* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent city=Goal coat=Theme |
| 4 | **declare** *speech: other* | gerund | Philip  King of Spain *not said here* | coat |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Attribute |
| 5 | **y** | past | Ciudad | Siempre and English |  |  |  |  | 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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