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title: However, during the Francoist dictatorship the carnival was under go… — Madrid · tree and pragmatics
description: However, during the Francoist dictatorship the carnival was under government ban and the feasts suffered a big blow. Who acts: carnival, Francoist dictatorship. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Madrid» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Madrid, sentence 453

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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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However, during the Francoist dictatorship the carnival was under government ban and the feasts suffered a big blow.

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**Who acts:** carnival, Francoist dictatorship · **What happens:** be, suffer · **To what, where:** government ban, big blow

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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 (carnival, Francoist dictatorship), 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:453
# text = However, during the Francoist dictatorship the carnival was under government ban and the feasts suffered a big blow.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	during	during	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Francoist	Francoist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dictatorship	dictatorship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	carnival	carnival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	under	under	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	ban	ban	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	feasts	feast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the carnival |  |  | government ban and the feasts |  | the feasts *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **suffer** | past | the Francoist dictatorship | a big blow |  |  |  | however *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blow=Stimulus |

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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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