Brazil, sentence 230
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.
Court decisions set out interpretive guidelines; however, they are seldom binding on other specific cases.
Who acts: Court decisions, guidelines · What happens: set out, bind · To what, where: interpretive guidelines, Court decisions, other specific cases
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 (Court decisions, guidelines), 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 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 decisions | compound |
| 2 | decisions | decision | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 decisions | acl |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | interpretive | interpretive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 guidelines | amod |
| 6 | guidelines | guideline | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 set | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 binding | punct |
| 8 | however | however | ADV | _ | 13 binding | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 however | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 binding | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 binding | aux |
| 12 | seldom | seldom | ADV | _ | 13 binding | advmod |
| 13 | binding | bind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 decisions | acl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 cases | case |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cases | amod |
| 16 | specific | specific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cases | amod |
| 17 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 binding | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 decisions | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | participle | Court decisions not said here | interpretive guidelines | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bind | present · progressive | guidelines = guideline | Court decisions not said here | other specific cases | however, seldom property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decision=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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