Madrid, sentence 39
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, located near Alcalá (under Muslim control until 1118), remained a borderland for a while, suffering a number of razzias during the Almoravid period, and its walls were destroyed in 1110.
Who acts: Madrid · What happens: locate, remain, suffer, destroy · To what, where: Madrid, Alcalá, borderland, number, walls, 1110
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), 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 | 14 remained | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 located | punct |
| 3 | located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Madrid | acl |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 5 Alcalá | case |
| 5 | Alcalá | Alcalá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 located | obl |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 control | punct |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 control | case |
| 8 | Muslim | Muslim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 control | amod |
| 9 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Alcalá | appos |
| 10 | until | until | ADP | _ | 11 1118 | case |
| 11 | 1118 | 1118 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 control | nmod |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 control | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Madrid | punct |
| 14 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 borderland | det |
| 16 | borderland | borderland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 remained | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 while | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 while | det |
| 19 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 remained | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 suffering | punct |
| 21 | suffering | suffer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 remained | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 number | det |
| 23 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 suffering | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 razzias | case |
| 25 | razzias | razzia | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 number | nmod |
| 26 | during | during | ADP | _ | 29 period | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 period | det |
| 28 | Almoravid | Almoravid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 period | compound |
| 29 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 suffering | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 destroyed | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 destroyed | cc |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 walls | nmod:poss |
| 33 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 destroyed | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 35 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 remained | conj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 1110 | case |
| 37 | 1110 | 1110 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 destroyed | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | locate | participle | Madrid not said here | Alcalá | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remain | past | Madrid | a borderland | while | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme borderland=Attribute | |||
| 3 | suffer | gerund | Madrid not said here | a number of razzias | during the Almoravid period | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | destroy | past · passive | period's walls | 1110 | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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