Madrid, sentence 97
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 intense demographic growth experienced by Madrid via mass immigration from the rural areas of Spain led to the construction of abundant housing in the peripheral areas of Madrid to absorb the new population, initially comprising substandard housing.
Who acts: intense demographic growth · What happens: experience, lead, absorb, comprise, construct · To what, where: intense demographic growth, rural areas, peripheral areas, new population, substandard housing, abundant housing
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 (intense demographic growth), 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 | 4 growth | det |
| 2 | intense | intense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 growth | amod |
| 3 | demographic | demographic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 growth | amod |
| 4 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 led | nsubj |
| 5 | experienced | experience | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 growth | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Madrid | case |
| 7 | Madrid | Madrid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 experienced | obl |
| 8 | via | via | ADP | _ | 10 immigration | case |
| 9 | mass | mass | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 immigration | amod |
| 10 | immigration | immigration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 experienced | obl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 areas | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 areas | det |
| 13 | rural | rural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 areas | amod |
| 14 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 experienced | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Spain | case |
| 16 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 areas | nmod |
| 17 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 construction | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 construction | det |
| 20 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 led | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 housing | case |
| 22 | abundant | abundant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 housing | amod |
| 23 | housing | housing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 construction | nmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 areas | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 areas | det |
| 26 | peripheral | peripheral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 areas | compound |
| 27 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 led | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Madrid | case |
| 29 | Madrid | Madrid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 areas | nmod |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 absorb | mark |
| 31 | absorb | absorb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 led | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 population | det |
| 33 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 population | amod |
| 34 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 absorb | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 comprising | punct |
| 36 | initially | initially | ADV | _ | 37 comprising | advmod |
| 37 | comprising | comprise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 absorb | advcl |
| 38 | substandard | substandard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 housing | amod |
| 39 | housing | housing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 comprising | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | experience | participle | the intense demographic growth not said here | the rural areas of Spain | by Madrid; via mass immigration | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | lead | past | the intense demographic growth | the peripheral areas of Madrid | to the construction of abundant housing | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to construction=Patient | |||
| 3 | absorb | to-infinitive | the intense demographic growth not said here | the new population | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal population=Theme | ||||
| 4 | comprise | gerund | the intense demographic growth not said here | substandard housing | initially property | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme housing=Pivot | |||
| 5 | construct | abundant housing | nom construction «act transitive»: of=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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