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title: In 2005, Madrid was the leading European destination for migrants fr… — Madrid · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2005, Madrid was the leading European destination for migrants from developing countries, as well as the largest employer of non-European workforce in Spain. Who acts: Madrid. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Madrid» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Madrid, sentence 112

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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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In 2005, Madrid was the leading European destination for migrants from developing countries, as well as the largest employer of non-European workforce in Spain.

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**Who acts:** Madrid · **What happens:** lead, be, develop · **To what, where:** leading European destination, 2005

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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:112
# text = In 2005, Madrid was the leading European destination for migrants from developing countries, as well as the largest employer of non-European workforce in Spain.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2005	2005	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Madrid	Madrid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
8	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	destination	destination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	migrants	migrant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	developing	develop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	21	cc	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	fixed	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	employer	employer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	non-European	non-european	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	workforce	workforce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Madrid | the leading European destination as the largest employer of non-European workforce in Spain |  | 2005 |  | for migrants from developing countries; the largest employer of non-European workforce in Spain *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **develop** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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