Madrid, sentence 3
From Wikipedia, «Madrid», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Madrid is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), after Berlin, and its metropolitan area is the second-largest in the EU, after Paris.
Who acts: Madrid, metropolitan area · What happens: be · To what, where: second largest city, European Union, EU
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Madrid». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Madrid, metropolitan area), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Madrid | Madrid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 city | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 city | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 city | det |
| 4 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 city | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 second | punct |
| 6 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 city | amod |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Union | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Union | det |
| 10 | European | European | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Union | compound |
| 11 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 city | nmod |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 EU | punct |
| 13 | EU | EU | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Union | appos |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 EU | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Berlin | punct |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 Berlin | case |
| 17 | Berlin | Berlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 city | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 largest | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 largest | cc |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 area | nmod:poss |
| 21 | metropolitan | metropolitan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 area | compound |
| 22 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 largest | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 largest | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 largest | det |
| 25 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 largest | amod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 largest | punct |
| 27 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 city | nmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 EU | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 EU | det |
| 30 | EU | EU | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 largest | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Paris | punct |
| 32 | after | after | ADP | _ | 33 Paris | case |
| 33 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 largest | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 city | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Madrid | the second largest city | the European Union | after Berlin | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is | present | city's metropolitan area | the EU | after Paris | large property | tree rules |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Madrid», 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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