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Spain, sentence 90

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.

Precious metals, spices, luxuries, and previously unknown plants brought to the metropole played a leading part in transforming the European understanding of the globe.

Who acts: unknown plants, Precious metals · What happens: bring, play, lead, transform, understand · To what, where: Precious metals, metropole, leading part, European understanding, globe

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 (unknown plants, Precious metals), 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

amodnsubjpunctconjpunctconjpunctccadvmodamodnsubjacl:relclcasedetobldetamodobjmarkadvcldetamodobjcasedetnmodpunctrootPreciousADJmetalsNOUN,PUNCTspicesNOUN,PUNCTluxuriesNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJpreviouslyADVunknownADJplantsNOUNbroughtVERBtoADPtheDETmetropoleNOUNplayedVERBaDETleadingVERBpartNOUNinSCONJtransformingVERBtheDETEuropeanADJunderstandingNOUNofADPtheDETglobeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1PreciouspreciousADJDegree=Pos2 metalsamod
2metalsmetalNOUNNumber=Plur16 playednsubj
3,,PUNCT_4 spicespunct
4spicesspiceNOUNNumber=Plur2 metalsconj
5,,PUNCT_6 luxuriespunct
6luxuriesluxuryNOUNNumber=Plur2 metalsconj
7,,PUNCT_12 broughtpunct
8andandCCONJ_12 broughtcc
9previouslypreviouslyADV_10 unknownadvmod
10unknownunknownADJDegree=Pos11 plantsamod
11plantsplantNOUNNumber=Plur12 broughtnsubj
12broughtbringVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 metalsacl:relcl
13totoADP_15 metropolecase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 metropoledet
15metropolemetropoleNOUNNumber=Sing12 broughtobl
16playedplayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
17aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 partdet
18leadingleadVERBVerbForm=Ger19 partamod
19partpartNOUNNumber=Sing16 playedobj
20ininSCONJ_21 transformingmark
21transformingtransformVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part16 playedadvcl
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 understandingdet
23EuropeanEuropeanADJDegree=Pos24 understandingamod
24understandingunderstandingNOUNNumber=Sing21 transformingobj
25ofofADP_27 globecase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 globedet
27globeglobeNOUNNumber=Sing24 understandingnmod
28..PUNCT_16 playedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bringpastunknown plantsPrecious metals and spices and luxuries not said herethe metropolevn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent metal=Theme to metropole=Destination
2playpastPrecious metals and spices and luxuriesa leading partvn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
3leadgerundvn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
4transformgerundPrecious metals and spices and luxuries not said herethe European understanding of the globevn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent understanding=Patient
5understandthe globenom understanding «cognition 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.

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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