Brazil, sentence 159
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.
It is the strongest drought in Brazil since the beginning of measurement in the 1950s, covering almost 60% of the country's territory.
Who acts: north · What happens: be, cover, begin · To what, where: strongest drought, Brazil, measurement
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 (north), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drought | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 drought | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 drought | det |
| 4 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 drought | amod |
| 5 | drought | drought | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Brazil | case |
| 7 | Brazil | Brazil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 drought | nmod |
| 8 | since | since | ADP | _ | 10 beginning | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 beginning | det |
| 10 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drought | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 measurement | case |
| 12 | measurement | measurement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beginning | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 1950s | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 1950s | det |
| 15 | 1950s | 1950 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 12 measurement | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 covering | punct |
| 17 | covering | cover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 drought | advcl |
| 18 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 19 60 | advmod |
| 19 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 % | nummod |
| 20 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 17 covering | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 territory | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 country | det |
| 23 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 territory | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 country | case |
| 25 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 % | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | north | the strongest drought | Brazil | since the beginning of measurement in the 1950s | tree rules | ||
| 2 | cover | gerund | north not said here | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme %=Destination | |||||
| 3 | begin | measurement in the 1950s | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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