Spain, sentence 196
From Wikipedia, «Spain», 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.
Because of the proximity of the 2004 Spanish general election, the issue of responsibility quickly became a political controversy, with the main competing parties, the PP (People's Party) and PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' party) exchanging accusations over the handling of the incident.
Who acts: issue, PP · What happens: become, exchange, issue, handle · To what, where: political controversy, accusations, handling, responsibility, incident
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Spain». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (issue, PP), 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 | Because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 proximity | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Because | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 proximity | det |
| 4 | proximity | proximity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 became | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 election | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 election | det |
| 7 | 2004 | 2004 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 election | compound |
| 8 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 election | amod |
| 9 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 election | amod |
| 10 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 proximity | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 proximity | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 issue | det |
| 13 | issue | issue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 became | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 responsibility | case |
| 15 | responsibility | responsibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 issue | nmod |
| 16 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 17 became | advmod |
| 17 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 controversy | det |
| 19 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 controversy | amod |
| 20 | controversy | controversy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 became | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 parties | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 parties | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 parties | det |
| 24 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 parties | amod |
| 25 | competing | competing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 parties | compound |
| 26 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 controversy | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 PP | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 PP | det |
| 29 | PP | pp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 controversy | conj |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 33 Party | punct |
| 31 | People | People | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Party | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 People | case |
| 33 | Party | Party | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 PP | appos |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 Party | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 PSOE | cc |
| 36 | PSOE | PSOE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Party | conj |
| 37 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 42 party | punct |
| 38 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 Workers | amod |
| 39 | Socialist | socialist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Workers | compound |
| 40 | Workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 party | nmod:poss |
| 41 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 40 Workers | case |
| 42 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Party | appos |
| 43 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 42 party | punct |
| 44 | exchanging | exchange | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 PP | acl |
| 45 | accusations | accusation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 exchanging | obj |
| 46 | over | over | ADP | _ | 48 handling | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 handling | det |
| 48 | handling | handling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 exchanging | obl |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 incident | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 incident | det |
| 51 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 handling | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the issue of responsibility | a political controversy and the main competing parties and the PP | because the proximity of the 2004 Spanish general election; quickly property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | exchange | gerund | the PP not said here | accusations | the handling of the incident | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accusation=Theme | |||
| 3 | issue | responsibility | nom issue «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | handle | the incident | nom handling «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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