--- title: The intense demographic growth experienced by Madrid via mass immigr… — Madrid · tree and pragmatics description: The intense demographic growth experienced by Madrid via mass immigration from the rural areas of Spain led to the construction of abundant housing in the peripheral areas of Madrid to absorb the new population, initially comprising substandard housing. Who acts: intense demographic growth. 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The intense demographic growth experienced by Madrid via mass immigration from the rural areas of Spain led to the construction of abundant housing in the peripheral areas of Madrid to absorb the new population, initially comprising substandard housing. **Who acts:** intense demographic growth · **What happens:** experience, lead, absorb, comprise, construct · **To what, where:** intense demographic growth, rural areas, peripheral areas, new population, substandard housing, abundant housing 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 (intense demographic growth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:97 # text = The intense demographic growth experienced by Madrid via mass immigration from the rural areas of Spain led to the construction of abundant housing in the peripheral areas of Madrid to absorb the new population, initially comprising substandard housing. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 intense intense ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 demographic demographic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 growth growth NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 5 experienced experience VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Madrid Madrid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 via via ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 mass mass ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 immigration immigration NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 rural rural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 areas area NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Spain Spain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 construction construction NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 abundant abundant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 housing housing NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 peripheral peripheral NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 areas area NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Madrid Madrid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 absorb absorb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 population population NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 initially initially ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 comprising comprise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 38 substandard substandard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 housing housing NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **experience** | participle | | the intense demographic growth *not said here* | | the rural areas of Spain | | by Madrid; via mass immigration | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **lead** | past | the intense demographic growth | | | the peripheral areas of Madrid | | to the construction of abundant housing | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to construction=Patient | | 3 | **absorb** | to-infinitive | the intense demographic growth *not said here* | the new population | | | | | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal population=Theme | | 4 | **comprise** | gerund | the intense demographic growth *not said here* | substandard housing | | | | initially *property* | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme housing=Pivot | | 5 | **construct** | | | abundant housing | | | | | nom construction «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Madrid/96/) - next →: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Madrid/98/) - ↑ back to [Madrid](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Madrid/)