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title: The construction of transport infrastructure has been vital to maint… — Madrid · tree and pragmatics
description: The construction of transport infrastructure has been vital to maintain the economic position of Madrid. Who acts: construction. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Madrid» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Madrid, sentence 268

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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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The construction of transport infrastructure has been vital to maintain the economic position of Madrid.

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**Who acts:** construction · **What happens:** be, maintain, construct · **To what, where:** economic position, transport infrastructure

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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 (construction), 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:268
# text = The construction of transport infrastructure has been vital to maintain the economic position of Madrid.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	transport	transport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	infrastructure	infrastructure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
8	vital	vital	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	maintain	maintain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Madrid	Madrid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · perfect | the construction of transport infrastructure |  |  |  |  | vital *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **maintain** | to-infinitive | the construction of transport infrastructure *not said here* | the economic position of Madrid |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent position=Theme |
| 3 | **construct** |  |  | transport infrastructure |  |  |  |  | nom construction «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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