Brazil, sentence 81
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.
Long after the Cisplatine War that resulted in the independence of Uruguay, Brazil won three international wars during the 58-year reign of Pedro II: the Platine War, the Uruguayan War and the devastating Paraguayan War, the largest war effort in Brazilian history.
Who acts: that, Brazil · What happens: result, win · To what, where: independence, three international wars
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 (that, 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 resulted | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 War | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 War | det |
| 4 | Cisplatine | Cisplatine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 War | compound |
| 5 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Long | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 resulted | nsubj |
| 7 | resulted | result | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 independence | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 independence | det |
| 10 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 resulted | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Uruguay | case |
| 12 | Uruguay | Uruguay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 independence | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 won | punct |
| 14 | Brazil | Brazil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 won | nsubj |
| 15 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 resulted | conj |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 wars | nummod |
| 17 | international | international | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wars | amod |
| 18 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 won | obj |
| 19 | during | during | ADP | _ | 24 reign | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 reign | det |
| 21 | 58 | 58 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 year | nummod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 58 | punct |
| 23 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 reign | compound |
| 24 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 won | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Pedro | case |
| 26 | Pedro | Pedro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 reign | nmod |
| 27 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 26 Pedro | flat |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 War | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 War | det |
| 30 | Platine | Platine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 War | compound |
| 31 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 reign | appos |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 War | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 War | det |
| 34 | Uruguayan | Uruguayan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 War | compound |
| 35 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 War | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 War | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 War | det |
| 38 | devastating | devastating | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 War | amod |
| 39 | Paraguayan | Paraguayan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 War | compound |
| 40 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 War | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 effort | punct |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 effort | det |
| 43 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 45 effort | amod |
| 44 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 effort | compound |
| 45 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 War | conj |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 history | case |
| 47 | Brazilian | Brazilian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 history | amod |
| 48 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 effort | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 resulted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | result | past | that | the independence of Uruguay | long property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in independence=Location | |||
| 2 | win | past | Brazil | three international wars | during the year reign of Pedro | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=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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