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title: A great many important road, rail and air links converge on the capi… — Madrid · tree and pragmatics
description: A great many important road, rail and air links converge on the capital, providing effective connections with other parts of the metropolitan region and with the rest of Spain and other parts of Europe. Who acts: air links. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Madrid» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Madrid, sentence 545

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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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A great many important road, rail and air links converge on the capital, providing effective connections with other parts of the metropolitan region and with the rest of Spain and other parts of Europe.

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**Who acts:** air links · **What happens:** converge, provide · **To what, where:** rail, capital, effective connections, great many important road

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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 (air links), 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:545
# text = A great many important road, rail and air links converge on the capital, providing effective connections with other parts of the metropolitan region and with the rest of Spain and other parts of Europe.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	rail	rail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	links	link	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	converge	converge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	providing	provide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	effective	effective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	connections	connection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	metropolitan	metropolitan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **converge** | present | air links | rail *not said here* |  | the capital |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rail=Theme |
| 2 | **provide** | gerund | air links *not said here* | effective connections |  |  |  | with other parts of the metropolitan region and the rest of Spain and other parts of Europe | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent connection=Recipient with part=Theme |

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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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