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title: The taxicabs are regulated by a specific sub-division of taxi servic… — Madrid · tree and pragmatics
description: The taxicabs are regulated by a specific sub-division of taxi service, a body dependent of the Madrid City Council. Who acts: specific sub-division. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Madrid» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Madrid, sentence 592

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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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The taxicabs are regulated by a specific sub-division of taxi service, a body dependent of the Madrid City Council.

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**Who acts:** specific sub-division · **What happens:** regulate · **To what, where:** taxicabs

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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 (specific sub-division), 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:592
# text = The taxicabs are regulated by a specific sub-division of taxi service, a body dependent of the Madrid City Council.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	taxicabs	taxicab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	regulated	regulate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	specific	specific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sub-division	sub-division	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	taxi	taxi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	dependent	dependent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	Madrid	Madrid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **regulate** | present · passive | a specific sub-division of taxi service and a body dependent of the City Council | the taxicabs |  |  |  |  | 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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