Brazil, sentence 161
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.
Climate change in Brazil is causing higher temperatures and longer-lasting heatwaves, changing precipitation patterns, more intense wildfires and heightened fire risk.
Who acts: Climate change · What happens: cause, last, change, heighten · To what, where: higher temperatures, heatwaves, precipitation patterns, fire risk
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 (Climate change), 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 | Climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 change | compound |
| 2 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 causing | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Brazil | case |
| 4 | Brazil | Brazil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 change | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 causing | aux |
| 6 | causing | cause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 temperatures | amod |
| 8 | temperatures | temperature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 causing | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 longer | cc |
| 10 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 causing | advmod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 longer | punct |
| 12 | lasting | last | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 causing | conj |
| 13 | heatwaves | heatwave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lasting | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 changing | punct |
| 15 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 causing | conj |
| 16 | precipitation | precipitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 patterns | compound |
| 17 | patterns | pattern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 changing | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wildfires | punct |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 intense | advmod |
| 20 | intense | intense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wildfires | amod |
| 21 | wildfires | wildfire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 causing | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 heightened | cc |
| 23 | heightened | heighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 causing | conj |
| 24 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 risk | compound |
| 25 | risk | risk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 heightened | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 causing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | present · progressive | Climate change in Brazil | higher temperatures | intense wildfires obl; long property | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition temperature=Patient | |||
| 2 | last | gerund | Climate change in Brazil not said here | heatwaves | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme heatwave=Value | ||||
| 3 | change | gerund | Climate change in Brazil not said here | precipitation patterns | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Patient | ||||
| 4 | heighten | past | Climate change in Brazil not said here | fire risk | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent risk=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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