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title: President Manuel L. Quezon, aware of the problems besetting Manila,… — Metro Manila · tree and pragmatics
description: President Manuel L. Quezon, aware of the problems besetting Manila, initiated housing projects called Barrio Obrero (Worker's Community). Who acts: problems. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Metro Manila» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Metro Manila, sentence 86

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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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President Manuel L. Quezon, aware of the problems besetting Manila, initiated housing projects called Barrio Obrero (Worker's Community).

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**Who acts:** problems · **What happens:** beset, initiate, call · **To what, where:** Manila, initiated housing projects, Manuel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (problems), 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:86
# text = President Manuel L. Quezon, aware of the problems besetting Manila, initiated housing projects called Barrio Obrero (Worker's Community).
1	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Manuel	Manuel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	L.	L.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Quezon	Quezon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	aware	aware	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	besetting	beset	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	Manila	Manila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	initiated	initiate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
14	housing	housing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	projects	project	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	Barrio	Barrio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	_
18	Obrero	Obrero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Worker	Worker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	Community	Community	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beset** | gerund | the problems and initiated housing projects *not said here* | Manila |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **initiate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  | initiated housing projects *not said here* |  |  |  | Barrio *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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