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title: The Spanish Constitution of 1931 was the first to legislate the loca… — Madrid · tree and pragmatics
description: The Spanish Constitution of 1931 was the first to legislate the location of the country's capital, setting it explicitly in Madrid. Who acts: Spanish Constitution. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Madrid» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Madrid, sentence 79

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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 Spanish Constitution of 1931 was the first to legislate the location of the country's capital, setting it explicitly in Madrid.

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**Who acts:** Spanish Constitution · **What happens:** be, legislate, set · **To what, where:** location, 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 (Spanish Constitution), 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:79
# text = The Spanish Constitution of 1931 was the first to legislate the location of the country's capital, setting it explicitly in Madrid.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Constitution	Constitution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1931	1931	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	legislate	legislate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	explicitly	explicitly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Madrid	Madrid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Spanish Constitution of 1931 |  |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **legislate** | to-infinitive |  | the location of the country's capital |  |  |  |  | vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent location=Topic |
| 3 | **set** | gerund |  | location |  | Madrid |  | explicitly *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in madrid=Destination |

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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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