Brazil, sentence 40
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.
The Marajoara culture flourished on Marajó in the Amazon delta from AD 400 to 1400, developing sophisticated pottery, social stratification, large populations, mound building, and complex social formations such as chiefdoms.
What happens: flourish, develop · To what, where: Marajoara culture, Marajó, sophisticated pottery
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 culture | det |
| 2 | Marajoara | Marajoara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 culture | compound |
| 3 | culture | culture | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | flourished | flourish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 culture | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Marajó | case |
| 6 | Marajó | Marajó | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 flourished | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 delta | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 delta | det |
| 9 | Amazon | Amazon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 delta | compound |
| 10 | delta | delta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flourished | obl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 AD | case |
| 12 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 delta | nmod |
| 13 | 400 | 400 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 AD | flat |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 1400 | case |
| 15 | 1400 | 1400 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 400 | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 developing | punct |
| 17 | developing | develop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 culture | conj |
| 18 | sophisticated | sophisticated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pottery | amod |
| 19 | pottery | pottery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 developing | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stratification | punct |
| 21 | social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 stratification | amod |
| 22 | stratification | stratification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pottery | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 populations | punct |
| 24 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 populations | amod |
| 25 | populations | population | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 pottery | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 building | punct |
| 27 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 building | compound |
| 28 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 populations | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 formations | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 formations | cc |
| 31 | complex | complex | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 formations | amod |
| 32 | social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 formations | amod |
| 33 | formations | formation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 culture | conj |
| 34 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 36 chiefdoms | case |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 such | fixed |
| 36 | chiefdoms | chiefdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 formations | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 culture | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flourish | participle | the Marajoara culture and complex social formations such chiefdoms not said here | Marajó | in the Amazon delta from AD | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on marajó=Location | |||
| 2 | develop | gerund | sophisticated pottery and social stratification and large populations and mound building | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pottery=Product |
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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