Brazil, sentence 211
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.
Each state and the Federal District has a representation of three senators, who are elected by popular ballot for a term of eight years.
Who acts: state, popular ballot · What happens: have, elect, represent, term · To what, where: representation, three senators, eight years
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 (state, popular ballot), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 state | det |
| 2 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 District | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 District | det |
| 5 | Federal | Federal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 District | amod |
| 6 | District | District | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 state | conj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 representation | det |
| 9 | representation | representation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 senators | case |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 senators | nummod |
| 12 | senators | senator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 representation | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 elected | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 elected | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 elected | aux:pass |
| 16 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 senators | acl:relcl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 ballot | case |
| 18 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ballot | amod |
| 19 | ballot | ballot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 elected | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 term | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 term | det |
| 22 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 elected | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 years | case |
| 24 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 years | nummod |
| 25 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 term | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | each state and the Federal District | a representation of three senators | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent representation=Patient | ||||
| 2 | elect | present · passive | popular ballot | three senators | for a term of eight years | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | represent | three senators | nom representation «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | term | eight years | nom term «communication 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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