Brazil, sentence 65
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.
However, the leadership in Portugal, resentful of the new status of its larger colony, continued to demand the return of the court to Lisbon (see Liberal Revolution of 1820).
Who acts: court · What happens: continue, demand, see, return · To what, where: return, Lisbon, Liberal Revolution
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), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 8 resentful | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 leadership | det |
| 4 | leadership | leadership | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 resentful | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Portugal | case |
| 6 | Portugal | Portugal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 leadership | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 resentful | punct |
| 8 | resentful | resentful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 status | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 status | det |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 status | amod |
| 12 | status | status | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 resentful | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 colony | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 colony | nmod:poss |
| 15 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 colony | amod |
| 16 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 status | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 continued | punct |
| 18 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 resentful | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 demand | mark |
| 20 | demand | demand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 continued | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 return | det |
| 22 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 demand | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 court | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 court | det |
| 25 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 return | nmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Lisbon | case |
| 27 | Lisbon | Lisbon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 demand | obl |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 see | punct |
| 29 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 demand | parataxis |
| 30 | Liberal | Liberal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Revolution | compound |
| 31 | Revolution | Revolution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 see | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 1820 | case |
| 33 | 1820 | 1820 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 Revolution | nmod |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 see | punct |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 resentful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | participle | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | to-infinitive | the return of the court | Lisbon | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme return=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | Liberal Revolution of 1820 | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer revolution=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | return | the court | nom return «communication intransitive»: of=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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