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title: Madrid, located near Alcalá (under Muslim control until 1118), remai… — Madrid · tree and pragmatics
description: Madrid, located near Alcalá (under Muslim control until 1118), remained a borderland for a while, suffering a number of razzias during the Almoravid period, and its walls were destroyed in 1110. Who acts: Madrid. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Madrid» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Madrid, sentence 39

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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, located near Alcalá (under Muslim control until 1118), remained a borderland for a while, suffering a number of razzias during the Almoravid period, and its walls were destroyed in 1110.

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**Who acts:** Madrid · **What happens:** locate, remain, suffer, destroy · **To what, where:** Madrid, Alcalá, borderland, number, walls, 1110

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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:39
# text = Madrid, located near Alcalá (under Muslim control until 1118), remained a borderland for a while, suffering a number of razzias during the Almoravid period, and its walls were destroyed in 1110.
1	Madrid	Madrid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Alcalá	Alcalá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Muslim	Muslim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	until	until	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1118	1118	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
14	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	borderland	borderland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	suffering	suffer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	razzias	razzia	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	during	during	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Almoravid	Almoravid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	1110	1110	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **locate** | participle |  | Madrid *not said here* |  | Alcalá |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remain** | past | Madrid | a borderland |  |  | while |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme borderland=Attribute |
| 3 | **suffer** | gerund | Madrid *not said here* | a number of razzias |  |  | during the Almoravid period |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus |
| 4 | **destroy** | past · passive |  | period's walls |  | 1110 |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=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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