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title: Precious metals, spices, luxuries, and previously unknown plants bro… — Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Precious metals, spices, luxuries, and previously unknown plants brought to the metropole played a leading part in transforming the European understanding of the globe. Who acts: unknown plants, Precious metals. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Spain» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Spain, sentence 90

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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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Precious metals, spices, luxuries, and previously unknown plants brought to the metropole played a leading part in transforming the European understanding of the globe.

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**Who acts:** unknown plants, Precious metals · **What happens:** bring, play, lead, transform, understand · **To what, where:** Precious metals, metropole, leading part, European understanding, globe

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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 (unknown plants, Precious metals), 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:90
# text = Precious metals, spices, luxuries, and previously unknown plants brought to the metropole played a leading part in transforming the European understanding of the globe.
1	Precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	metals	metal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	spices	spice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	luxuries	luxury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	previously	previously	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	metropole	metropole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
19	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	transforming	transform	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	globe	globe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | unknown plants | Precious metals and spices and luxuries *not said here* |  | the metropole |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent metal=Theme to metropole=Destination |
| 2 | **play** | past | Precious metals and spices and luxuries | a leading part |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 3 | **lead** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 4 | **transform** | gerund | Precious metals and spices and luxuries *not said here* | the European understanding of the globe |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent understanding=Patient |
| 5 | **understand** |  |  | the globe |  |  |  |  | nom understanding «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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