Spain, sentence 501
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.
By 3 August, Spanish government officials said about 70,000 people had voluntarily returned to Morocco.
Who acts: Spanish government officials, 70,000 people · What happens: say, return · To what, where: Morocco · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Spanish government officials, 70,000 people), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 August | case |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 August | nummod |
| 3 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 August | punct |
| 5 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 officials | amod |
| 6 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 officials | compound |
| 7 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 70,000 | advmod |
| 10 | 70,000 | 70,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 people | nummod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 returned | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 returned | aux |
| 13 | voluntarily | voluntarily | ADV | _ | 14 returned | advmod |
| 14 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Morocco | case |
| 16 | Morocco | Morocco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 returned | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Spanish government officials | august | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | return | past · perfect | 70,000 people | Morocco | voluntarily property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to morocco=Result |
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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