Brasília, sentence 31
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.
The government commissioned Belgian geodesist and astronomer Luís Cruls for a mission into the Central Plateau for surveying the land for the future capital, having done two expeditions in 1892 and 1894.
Who acts: government · What happens: commission, survey, have, do · To what, where: Belgian geodesist, Central Plateau, land, two expeditions, 1892
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 (government), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 government | det |
| 2 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 commissioned | nsubj |
| 3 | commissioned | commission | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Belgian | Belgian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 geodesist | amod |
| 5 | geodesist | geodesist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 commissioned | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 astronomer | cc |
| 7 | astronomer | astronomer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 geodesist | conj |
| 8 | Luís | Luís | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Cruls | compound |
| 9 | Cruls | Crul | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 geodesist | appos |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 mission | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mission | det |
| 12 | mission | mission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 commissioned | obl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 Plateau | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Plateau | det |
| 15 | Central | Central | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Plateau | flat |
| 16 | Plateau | Plateau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 commissioned | obl |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 surveying | mark |
| 18 | surveying | survey | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 commissioned | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 land | det |
| 20 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 surveying | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 capital | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 capital | det |
| 23 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 capital | amod |
| 24 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 surveying | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 having | punct |
| 26 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 surveying | conj |
| 27 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 having | xcomp |
| 28 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 expeditions | nummod |
| 29 | expeditions | expedition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 done | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 1892 | case |
| 31 | 1892 | 1892 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 done | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 1894 | cc |
| 33 | 1894 | 1894 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 1892 | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 commissioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commission | past | the government | Belgian geodesist and astronomer | the Central Plateau | for a mission | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent geodesist=Theme | ||
| 2 | survey | gerund | the government not said here | the land | for the future capital | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent land=Theme for capital=Attribute | |||
| 3 | have | gerund | the government not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | participle | the government not said here | two expeditions | 1892 | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expedition=Eventuality |
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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