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title: By 3 August, Spanish government officials said about 70,000 people h… — Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: By 3 August, Spanish government officials said about 70,000 people had voluntarily returned to Morocco. Who acts: Spanish government officials, 70,000 people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Spain» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Spain, sentence 501

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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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By 3 August, Spanish government officials said about 70,000 people had voluntarily returned to Morocco.

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**Who acts:** Spanish government officials, 70,000 people · **What happens:** say, return · **To what, where:** Morocco · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Spanish government officials, 70,000 people), 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:501
# text = By 3 August, Spanish government officials said about 70,000 people had voluntarily returned to Morocco.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	70,000	70,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	voluntarily	voluntarily	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Morocco	Morocco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Spanish government officials |  |  |  | august |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **return** | past · perfect | 70,000 people |  | Morocco |  |  | voluntarily *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to morocco=Result |

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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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