Brasília, sentence 50
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Costa attempted to introduce a Brazil that was more equitable, he also designed housing for the working classes that was separated from the upper- and middle-class housing and was visually different, with the intention of avoiding slums (favelas) in the urban periphery.
Who acts: Costa, Brazil, intention · What happens: attempt, introduce, be, design, house, separate · To what, where: Brazil, working classes, slums, urban periphery
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 (Costa, Brazil, intention), 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 | Costa | Costa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 attempted | nsubj |
| 2 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 introduce | mark |
| 4 | introduce | introduce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 attempted | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Brazil | det |
| 6 | Brazil | Brazil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 introduce | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 equitable | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 equitable | cop |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 equitable | advmod |
| 10 | equitable | equitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Brazil | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 designed | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 designed | nsubj |
| 13 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 designed | advmod |
| 14 | designed | design | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 attempted | conj |
| 15 | housing | house | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 designed | xcomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 classes | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 classes | det |
| 18 | working | working | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 classes | compound |
| 19 | classes | class | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 housing | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 separated | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 separated | aux:pass |
| 22 | separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 classes | acl:relcl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 housing | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 housing | det |
| 25 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 housing | amod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 housing | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 housing | cc |
| 28 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 class | amod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 middle | punct |
| 30 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 housing | compound |
| 31 | housing | housing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 separated | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 different | cc |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 different | cop |
| 34 | visually | visually | ADV | _ | 35 different | advmod |
| 35 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 designed | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 intention | punct |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 intention | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 intention | det |
| 39 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 designed | parataxis |
| 40 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 41 avoiding | mark |
| 41 | avoiding | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 intention | acl |
| 42 | slums | slum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 avoiding | obj |
| 43 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 44 favelas | punct |
| 44 | favelas | favela | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 slums | appos |
| 45 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 44 favelas | punct |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 periphery | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 periphery | det |
| 48 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 periphery | amod |
| 49 | periphery | periphery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 avoiding | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 attempted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attempt | past | Costa | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | introduce not said to happen | to-infinitive | Costa not said here | a Brazil | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brazil=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | a Brazil | equitable property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | design | past | Costa | the intention parataxis | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | house | gerund | Costa not said here | for the working classes | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | ||||
| 6 | separate | past · passive | the working classes | from the upper class housing | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from housing=Co-Patient | ||||
| 7 | is | past | Costa not said here | different, visually property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | avoid | gerund | the intention not said here | slums | the urban periphery | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent slum=Location |
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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