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title: It joined the European Economic Community—now the European Union—in… — Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: It joined the European Economic Community—now the European Union—in 1986 and implemented policies and reforms that allowed for its participation in the inaugural launch of the euro in 1999. Who acts: economy, policies. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Spain» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Spain, sentence 421

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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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It joined the European Economic Community—now the European Union—in 1986 and implemented policies and reforms that allowed for its participation in the inaugural launch of the euro in 1999.

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**Who acts:** economy, policies · **What happens:** join, implement, allow, participate · **To what, where:** European Economic Community, 1986, policies, 1999, inaugural launch

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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 (economy, policies), 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:421
# text = It joined the European Economic Community—now the European Union—in 1986 and implemented policies and reforms that allowed for its participation in the inaugural launch of the euro in 1999.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	Economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	European	European	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1986	1986	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	implemented	implement	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	policies	policy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	reforms	reform	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	allowed	allow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	participation	participation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	inaugural	inaugural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	launch	launch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	euro	euro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	1999	1999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | past | economy | the European Economic Community |  | 1986 |  | the European Union *obl* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent community=Patient |
| 2 | **implement** | past | economy *not said here* | policies and reforms |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent policy=Patient |
| 3 | **allow** | past | policies and reforms |  |  | 1999 |  | for economy's participation in the inaugural launch of the euro *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for participation=Goal |
| 4 | **participate** |  | economy |  |  | the inaugural launch of the euro |  |  | nom participation «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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