Brazil, sentence 119

From Wikipedia, «Brazil», 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.

However, sparked by discontent accumulated over decades from corruption, police brutality, inefficiencies of the political establishment and public service, numerous peaceful protests erupted in Brazil in the middle of the first term of Dilma Rousseff, who had succeeded Lula after winning election in 2010 and again in 2014 by narrow margins.

Who acts: numerous peaceful protests, Dilma · What happens: spark, accumulate, erupt, succeed, win · To what, where: discontent, corruption, Brazil, Lula, 2010

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Brazil». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (numerous peaceful protests, Dilma), 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.

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The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	However	however	ADV	_	3 sparked	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	sparked	spark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 discontent	case
5	discontent	discontent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sparked	obl
6	accumulated	accumulate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 discontent	acl
7	over	over	ADP	_	8 decades	case
8	decades	decade	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 accumulated	obl
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 corruption	case
10	corruption	corruption	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 accumulated	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 brutality	punct
12	police	police	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brutality	compound
13	brutality	brutality	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 discontent	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 inefficiencies	punct
15	inefficiencies	inefficiency	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 brutality	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 establishment	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 establishment	det
18	political	political	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 establishment	amod
19	establishment	establishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 inefficiencies	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 service	cc
21	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 service	amod
22	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 establishment	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 erupted	punct
24	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 protests	amod
25	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 protests	amod
26	protests	protest	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 erupted	nsubj
27	erupted	erupt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 brutality	parataxis
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 Brazil	case
29	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 erupted	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 middle	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 middle	det
32	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 erupted	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 term	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 term	det
35	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	36 term	amod
36	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 middle	nmod
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 Dilma	case
38	Dilma	Dilma	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 term	appos
39	Rousseff	Rousseff	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Dilma	flat
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 succeeded	punct
41	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 succeeded	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 succeeded	aux
43	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 Dilma	acl
44	Lula	Lula	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 succeeded	obj
45	after	after	ADP	_	47 election	case
46	winning	win	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	47 election	amod
47	election	election	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 succeeded	obl
48	in	in	ADP	_	49 2010	case
49	2010	2010	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	43 succeeded	obl
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 again	cc
51	again	again	ADV	_	49 2010	conj
52	in	in	ADP	_	53 2014	case
53	2014	2014	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	43 succeeded	obl
54	by	by	ADP	_	56 margins	case
55	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 margins	amod
56	margins	margin	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 succeeded	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sparked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spark	participle					by discontent and police brutality and inefficiencies of the political establishment and public service; however property	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition
2	accumulate	participle		discontent and police brutality and inefficiencies of the political establishment and public service not said here	corruption	decade		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from corruption=Source
3	erupt	past	numerous peaceful protests		Brazil		in the middle of the first term	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in brazil=Location
4	succeed	past · perfect	Dilma	Lula	2010	after winning election	in 2014; by narrow margins	tree rules
5	win	gerund						vn succeed-74-2 «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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Brazil», 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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Brazil, sentence 119