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title: King Charles III beautified the city and endeavoured to convert Madr… — Madrid · tree and pragmatics
description: King Charles III beautified the city and endeavoured to convert Madrid into one of the great European capitals. Who acts: Charles. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Madrid» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Madrid, sentence 326

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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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King Charles III beautified the city and endeavoured to convert Madrid into one of the great European capitals.

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**Who acts:** Charles · **What happens:** beautify, endeavour, convert · **To what, where:** city, Madrid

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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 (Charles), 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:326
# text = King Charles III beautified the city and endeavoured to convert Madrid into one of the great European capitals.
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	III	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
4	beautified	beautify	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	endeavoured	endeavour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	convert	convert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	Madrid	Madrid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	capitals	capital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beautify** | past | Charles  King | the city |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent city=Patient |
| 2 | **endeavour** | past | Charles  King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **convert** | to-infinitive | Charles  King *not said here* | Madrid |  |  |  | into one of the great European capitals *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent madrid=Patient into one=Result |

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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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