Brazil, sentence 22
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.
Brazil's current constitution, enacted in 1988, defines it as a democratic federal republic.
Who acts: current constitution, Brazil · What happens: enact, define, constitute · To what, where: current constitution, 1988, governance
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 (current constitution, Brazil), 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 | Brazil | Brazil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 constitution | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Brazil | case |
| 3 | current | current | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 constitution | amod |
| 4 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 defines | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 enacted | punct |
| 6 | enacted | enact | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 constitution | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1988 | case |
| 8 | 1988 | 1988 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 enacted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 constitution | punct |
| 10 | defines | define | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 defines | obj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 republic | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 republic | det |
| 14 | democratic | democratic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 republic | amod |
| 15 | federal | federal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 republic | amod |
| 16 | republic | republic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 defines | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 defines | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enact | participle | Brazil's current constitution not said here | 1988 | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | define | present | Brazil's current constitution | governance | as a democratic federal republic | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as republic=Attribute | |||
| 3 | constitute | Brazil | nom constitution «communication 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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