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title: British forces occupied Manila from 1762 to 1764 during the Seven Ye… — Philippines · tree and pragmatics
description: British forces occupied Manila from 1762 to 1764 during the Seven Years' War. Who acts: British forces. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Philippines» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Philippines, sentence 61

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From Wikipedia, [«Philippines»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines), 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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British forces occupied Manila from 1762 to 1764 during the Seven Years' War.

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**Who acts:** British forces · **What happens:** occupy · **To what, where:** Manila, 1762

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Philippines». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (British forces), 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:Philippines:61
# text = British forces occupied Manila from 1762 to 1764 during the Seven Years' War.
1	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Manila	Manila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1762	1762	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1764	1764	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	during	during	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	Years	Year	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occupy** | past | British forces | Manila |  | 1762 to 1764 | during the Seven Years's War |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus manila=Experiencer |

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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, «Philippines», 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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