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title: More recently the construction sector has fallen away and earned 8%… — Madrid · tree and pragmatics
description: More recently the construction sector has fallen away and earned 8% less in 2009 than it had been in 2000. Who acts: construction sector, plant. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Madrid» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Madrid, sentence 281

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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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More recently the construction sector has fallen away and earned 8% less in 2009 than it had been in 2000.

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**Who acts:** construction sector, plant · **What happens:** fall away, earn, be · **To what, where:** 2009

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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 sector, plant), 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:281
# text = More recently the construction sector has fallen away and earned 8% less in 2009 than it had been in 2000.
1	More	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
2	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	sector	sector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	earned	earn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall away** | present · perfect | the construction sector |  |  |  |  | away, recently *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **earn** | past | the construction sector *not said here* |  |  | 2009 |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent %=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past · perfect | plant |  |  |  |  | than 2000 | tree rules |

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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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