Brazil, sentence 82
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.
Although there was no desire among the majority of Brazilians to change the country's form of government, on 15 November 1889, in disagreement with the majority of the Imperial Army officers, as well as with rural and financial elites, the monarchy was overthrown by a military coup.
Who acts: military coup, country · What happens: be, overthrow, form · To what, where: 15, monarchy, government
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 (military coup, country), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 3 was | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 change | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 desire | det |
| 5 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 majority | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 majority | det |
| 8 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 desire | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Brazilians | case |
| 10 | Brazilians | Brazilian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 majority | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 change | mark |
| 12 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 country | det |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 form | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 country | case |
| 16 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 change | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 government | case |
| 18 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 form | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 15 | punct |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 15 | case |
| 21 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 change | obl |
| 22 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 15 | nmod:unmarked |
| 23 | 1889 | 1889 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 15 | flat |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 disagreement | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 disagreement | case |
| 26 | disagreement | disagreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 change | obl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 majority | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 majority | det |
| 29 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 disagreement | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 officers | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 officers | det |
| 32 | Imperial | Imperial | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Army | compound |
| 33 | Army | Army | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 officers | compound |
| 34 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 majority | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 elites | punct |
| 36 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 43 elites | cc |
| 37 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 as | fixed |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 as | fixed |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 elites | case |
| 40 | rural | rural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 elites | amod |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 financial | cc |
| 42 | financial | financial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 rural | conj |
| 43 | elites | elite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 officers | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 overthrown | punct |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 monarchy | det |
| 46 | monarchy | monarchy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 overthrown | nsubj:pass |
| 47 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 overthrown | aux:pass |
| 48 | overthrown | overthrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 disagreement | conj |
| 49 | by | by | ADP | _ | 52 coup | case |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 coup | det |
| 51 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 coup | amod |
| 52 | coup | coup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 overthrown | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 change | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | 15 November | in disagreement with the majority of the Army officers as rural elites; the country's form of government obj; change property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | overthrow | past · passive | a military coup | the monarchy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | form | the country | government | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=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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