Spain, sentence 226
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.
On the west, Spain is bordered by Portugal; on the south, it is bordered by Gibraltar and Morocco, through its exclaves in North Africa (Ceuta and Melilla, and the peninsula of de Vélez de la Gomera).
Who acts: Portugal, Gibraltar · What happens: border · To what, where: Spain, west, south
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 (Portugal, Gibraltar), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 west | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 west | det |
| 3 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bordered | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 west | punct |
| 5 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bordered | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bordered | aux:pass |
| 7 | bordered | border | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Portugal | case |
| 9 | Portugal | Portugal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bordered | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 bordered | punct |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 south | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 south | det |
| 13 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bordered | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 south | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bordered | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 bordered | aux:pass |
| 17 | bordered | border | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 bordered | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 Gibraltar | case |
| 19 | Gibraltar | Gibraltar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 bordered | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Morocco | cc |
| 21 | Morocco | Morocco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Gibraltar | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 exclaves | punct |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 exclaves | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 exclaves | nmod:poss |
| 25 | exclaves | exclave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bordered | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 Africa | case |
| 27 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Africa | compound |
| 28 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 exclaves | nmod |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 Ceuta | punct |
| 30 | Ceuta | Ceuta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Africa | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Melilla | cc |
| 32 | Melilla | Melilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Africa | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 peninsula | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 peninsula | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 peninsula | det |
| 36 | peninsula | peninsula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bordered | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Vélez | case |
| 38 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Vélez | compound |
| 39 | Vélez | Vélez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 peninsula | nmod |
| 40 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 39 Vélez | flat:foreign |
| 41 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 39 Vélez | appos |
| 42 | Gomera | Gomera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 la | flat |
| 43 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 41 la | punct |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | border | present · passive | Portugal | Spain | the west | the peninsula of de Vélez obl | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | ||
| 2 | border | present · passive | Gibraltar and Morocco | south | the south | south's exclaves in North Africa and Ceuta and Melilla conj | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
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, «Spain», 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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