Brazil, sentence 383
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 has been steadily falling since the 1960s, from 3.04% per year between 1950 and 1960 to 1.05% in 2008 and is expected to fall to a negative value of –0.29% by 2050, thus completing the demographic transition.
Who acts: rate · What happens: fall, expect, complete · To what, where: demographic transition
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 (rate), 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 falling | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 falling | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 falling | aux |
| 4 | steadily | steadily | ADV | _ | 5 falling | advmod |
| 5 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | since | since | ADP | _ | 8 1960s | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 1960s | det |
| 8 | 1960s | 1960s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 5 falling | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 % | punct |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 % | case |
| 11 | 3.04 | 3.04 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 % | nummod |
| 12 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 5 falling | obl |
| 13 | per | per | ADP | _ | 14 year | case |
| 14 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 % | nmod |
| 15 | between | between | ADP | _ | 16 1950 | case |
| 16 | 1950 | 1950 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 % | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 % | cc |
| 18 | 1960 | 1960 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 % | nummod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 1.05 | case |
| 20 | 1.05 | 1.05 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 1960 | nmod |
| 21 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 16 1950 | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 2008 | case |
| 23 | 2008 | 2008 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 % | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 expected | cc |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 expected | aux:pass |
| 26 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 falling | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 fall | mark |
| 28 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 expected | xcomp |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 value | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 value | det |
| 31 | negative | negative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 value | amod |
| 32 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fall | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 % | case |
| 34 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 of | punct |
| 35 | 0.29 | 0.29 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 % | nummod |
| 36 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 32 value | nmod |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 2050 | case |
| 38 | 2050 | 2050 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 fall | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 completing | punct |
| 40 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 41 completing | advmod |
| 41 | completing | complete | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 fall | advcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 transition | det |
| 43 | demographic | demographic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 transition | amod |
| 44 | transition | transition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 completing | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 falling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present · perfect · progressive | rate | since the 1960s | steadily property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from %=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | expect | present · passive | rate not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fall not said to happen | to-infinitive | rate not said here | to a negative value result; by 2050 | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient to value=Result by 2050=Extent | ||||
| 4 | complete | gerund | rate not said here | the demographic transition | thus property | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent transition=Eventuality |
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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