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title: For this purpose, the monarch may preside at any time over meetings… — Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: For this purpose, the monarch may preside at any time over meetings of the Council of Ministers, but only when requested by the prime minister. Who acts: monarch. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Spain» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Spain, sentence 321

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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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For this purpose, the monarch may preside at any time over meetings of the Council of Ministers, but only when requested by the prime minister.

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**Who acts:** monarch · **What happens:** preside, request · **To what, where:** meetings

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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 (monarch), 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:321
# text = For this purpose, the monarch may preside at any time over meetings of the Council of Ministers, but only when requested by the prime minister.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	monarch	monarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	preside	preside	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	meetings	meeting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Ministers	Minister	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
23	requested	request	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	prime	prime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **preside** | may | the monarch |  |  | meetings of the Council of Ministers | time | for this purpose | tree rules |
| 2 | **request** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the prime minister | vn beg-58.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

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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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