Brasília, sentence 7
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 city's design divides it into numbered blocks as well as sectors for specified activities, such as the Hotel Sector, the Banking Sector, and the Embassy Sector.
Who acts: design, city · What happens: divide, number, specify, design · To what, where: city, numbered blocks
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 (design, city), 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 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 design | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 city | case |
| 4 | design | design | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 divides | nsubj |
| 5 | divides | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 divides | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 blocks | case |
| 8 | numbered | number | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 blocks | amod |
| 9 | blocks | block | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 divides | obl |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 13 sectors | cc |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 as | fixed |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 as | fixed |
| 13 | sectors | sector | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 blocks | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 activities | case |
| 15 | specified | specify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 activities | amod |
| 16 | activities | activity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sectors | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Sector | punct |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 22 Sector | case |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 such | fixed |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Sector | det |
| 21 | Hotel | Hotel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Sector | compound |
| 22 | Sector | sector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sectors | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Sector | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Sector | det |
| 25 | Banking | banking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Sector | compound |
| 26 | Sector | sector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Sector | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Sector | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Sector | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Sector | det |
| 30 | Embassy | Embassy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Sector | compound |
| 31 | Sector | sector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blocks | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 divides | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide | present | the city's design | city | numbered blocks as sectors for specified activities and the Hotel Sector and the Banking Sector and the Embassy Sector | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | number | participle | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | specify | participle | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | design | the city | nom design «act transitive»: poss=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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