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title: Madrid was the scene of some of the most important events of the tim… — Madrid · tree and pragmatics
description: Madrid was the scene of some of the most important events of the time, such as the mass demonstrations of support for democracy after the failed coup, 23-F, on 23 February 1981. Who acts: Madrid. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Madrid» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Madrid, sentence 105

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From Wikipedia, [«Madrid»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Madrid was the scene of some of the most important events of the time, such as the mass demonstrations of support for democracy after the failed coup, 23-F, on 23 February 1981.

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**Who acts:** Madrid · **What happens:** be, fail, demonstrate · **To what, where:** scene, support

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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 (Madrid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Madrid:105
# text = Madrid was the scene of some of the most important events of the time, such as the mass demonstrations of support for democracy after the failed coup, 23-F, on 23 February 1981.
1	Madrid	Madrid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
10	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	mass	mass	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	demonstrations	demonstration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	democracy	democracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	after	after	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	failed	fail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	coup	coup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	F	f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	_
36	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod:unmarked	_	_
37	1981	1981	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Madrid | the scene and 23 F |  |  |  | of some of the important events of the time and the mass demonstrations of support for democracy after the failed coup; 23 F *conj*; 23  February  1981 *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fail** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **demonstrate** |  |  | support for democracy after the failed coup |  |  |  |  | nom demonstration «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Madrid», 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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