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title: The year 1492 also marked the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the… — Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The year 1492 also marked the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World, during a voyage funded by Isabella. Who acts: Christopher. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Spain» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Spain, sentence 80

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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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The year 1492 also marked the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World, during a voyage funded by Isabella.

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**Who acts:** Christopher · **What happens:** mark, fund, arrive · **To what, where:** arrival, New World, voyage

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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 (Christopher), 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:80
# text = The year 1492 also marked the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World, during a voyage funded by Isabella.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	1492	1492	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Christopher	Christopher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	during	during	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
19	funded	fund	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Isabella	Isabella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | past |  | the arrival of Christopher |  | the New World | during a voyage; year |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent arrival=Theme in world=Destination |
| 2 | **fund** | participle |  | a voyage *not said here* |  |  |  | by Isabella | tree rules |
| 3 | **arrive** |  | Christopher |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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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