Complex sentence: The land, condemned by the city in 1917 for engineering purposes, was acquired by the Parks Department in 1971, and the park was dedicated eight years later, named after José Rizal, national hero of the Philippines.
Split into simpler sentences: The land, condemned by the city in 1917 for engineering purposes, was acquired by the Parks Department in 1971, and the park was dedicated eight years later. It is named after José Rizal, national hero of the Philippines.