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title: El Desastre (the Disaster), as the war became known in Spain, gave a… — Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: El Desastre (the Disaster), as the war became known in Spain, gave added impetus to the Generation of '98. Who acts: El. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Spain» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Spain, sentence 135

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From Wikipedia, [«Spain»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain), 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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El Desastre (the Disaster), as the war became known in Spain, gave added impetus to the Generation of '98.

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**Who acts:** El · **What happens:** become, know, give, add · **To what, where:** Spain, added impetus, Generation

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Spain». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (El), 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:Spain:135
# text = El Desastre (the Disaster), as the war became known in Spain, gave added impetus to the Generation of '98.
1	El	El	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	Desastre	Desastre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Disaster	disaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
11	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	xcomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	impetus	impetus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Generation	generation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	98	98	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | El as the war |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | participle | El as the war *not said here* |  |  | Spain |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **give** | past | El as the war *not said here* | added impetus | the Generation of 98 |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent impetus=Theme to generation=Recipient |
| 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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, «Spain», 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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