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title: Because of the proximity of the 2004 Spanish general election, the i… — Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Because of the proximity of the 2004 Spanish general election, the issue of responsibility quickly became a political controversy, with the main competing parties, the PP (People's Party) and PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' party) exchanging accusations over the handling of the incident. Who acts: 
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# Spain, sentence 196

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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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Because of the proximity of the 2004 Spanish general election, the issue of responsibility quickly became a political controversy, with the main competing parties, the PP (People's Party) and PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' party) exchanging accusations over the handling of the incident.

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**Who acts:** issue, PP · **What happens:** become, exchange, issue, handle · **To what, where:** political controversy, accusations, handling, responsibility, incident

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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 (issue, PP), 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:196
# text = Because of the proximity of the 2004 Spanish general election, the issue of responsibility quickly became a political controversy, with the main competing parties, the PP (People's Party) and PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' party) exchanging accusations over the handling of the incident.
1	Because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	proximity	proximity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	2004	2004	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	compound	_	_
8	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	issue	issue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	responsibility	responsibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	controversy	controversy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	competing	competing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	PP	pp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	People	People	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	Party	Party	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	PSOE	PSOE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
37	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	Socialist	socialist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	Workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	'	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	42	punct	_	_
44	exchanging	exchange	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
45	accusations	accusation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	_
46	over	over	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	handling	handling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the issue of responsibility | a political controversy and the main competing parties and the PP |  |  |  | because the proximity of the 2004 Spanish general election; quickly *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **exchange** | gerund | the PP *not said here* | accusations |  | the handling of the incident |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accusation=Theme |
| 3 | **issue** |  |  | responsibility |  |  |  |  | nom issue «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **handle** |  |  | the incident |  |  |  |  | nom handling «act transitive»: of=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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