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title: Among them, over seven million (15.4%) were born outside Europe, and… — Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Among them, over seven million (15.4%) were born outside Europe, and more than seven million (14.3%) held foreign nationality. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Spain» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Spain, sentence 487

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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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Among them, over seven million (15.4%) were born outside Europe, and more than seven million (14.3%) held foreign nationality.

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**What happens:** bear, hold · **To what, where:** seven million

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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: 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:487
# text = Among them, over seven million (15.4%) were born outside Europe, and more than seven million (14.3%) held foreign nationality.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	over	over	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	_
6	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	15.4	15.4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	20	advmod	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	compound	_	_
20	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	obl	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	14.3	14.3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
25	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
26	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	nationality	nationality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive |  | seven million among peoples |  |  |  | outside Europe | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **hold** | past |  | seven million |  |  |  | foreign nationality *obj* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nationality=Theme |

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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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