Brasília, sentence 78
From Wikipedia, «Brasília», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Lúcio Costa won a contest and was the main urban planner in 1957, with 5550 people competing.
Who acts: Lúcio, 5550 people · What happens: win, be, compete · To what, where: contest, 1957, main urban planner
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Brasília». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lúcio, 5550 people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lúcio | Lúcio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 won | nsubj |
| 2 | Costa | Costa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Lúcio | flat |
| 3 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 contest | det |
| 5 | contest | contest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 won | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 planner | cc |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 planner | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 planner | det |
| 9 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 planner | amod |
| 10 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 planner | amod |
| 11 | planner | planner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 won | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 1957 | case |
| 13 | 1957 | 1957 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 won | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 people | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 people | case |
| 16 | 5550 | 5550 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 people | nummod |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 won | parataxis |
| 18 | competing | compete | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 people | acl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 won | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past | Lúcio | a contest | 1957 | 5550 people parataxis | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contest=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | is a | past | Lúcio not said here | the main urban planner | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | compete | gerund | 5550 people not said here | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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