Madrid, sentence 79
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.
The Spanish Constitution of 1931 was the first to legislate the location of the country's capital, setting it explicitly in Madrid.
Who acts: Spanish Constitution · What happens: be, legislate, set · To what, where: location, Madrid
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 (Spanish Constitution), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Constitution | det |
| 2 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Constitution | amod |
| 3 | Constitution | Constitution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 first | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 1931 | case |
| 5 | 1931 | 1931 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 Constitution | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 first | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 first | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 legislate | mark |
| 10 | legislate | legislate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 first | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 location | det |
| 12 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 legislate | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 capital | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 capital | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 country | case |
| 17 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 location | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 setting | punct |
| 19 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 legislate | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 setting | obj |
| 21 | explicitly | explicitly | ADV | _ | 19 setting | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 Madrid | case |
| 23 | Madrid | Madrid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 setting | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 first | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Spanish Constitution of 1931 | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | legislate | to-infinitive | the location of the country's capital | vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent location=Topic | |||||
| 3 | set | gerund | location | Madrid | explicitly property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in madrid=Destination |
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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