Portugal, sentence 100
From Wikipedia, «Portugal», 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.
During the Estado Novo, Portugal remained neutral in World War II, after which the postwar end of colonial legitimacy and the growth of African independence movements increasingly challenged Portuguese rule overseas.
Who acts: Portugal, postwar end, African independence movements · What happens: remain, challenge, grow · To what, where: World War, Portuguese rule
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Portugal». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Portugal, postwar end, African independence movements), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 4 Novo | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Novo | det |
| 3 | Estado | Estado | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Novo | compound |
| 4 | Novo | Novo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 remained | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Novo | punct |
| 6 | Portugal | Portugal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 remained | nsubj |
| 7 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | neutral | neutral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 remained | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 War | case |
| 10 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 War | compound |
| 11 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 remained | obl |
| 12 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 11 War | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 challenged | punct |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 challenged | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 end | det |
| 17 | postwar | postwar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 end | amod |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 challenged | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 legitimacy | case |
| 20 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 legitimacy | amod |
| 21 | legitimacy | legitimacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 end | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 growth | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 growth | det |
| 24 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 legitimacy | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 movements | case |
| 26 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 movements | amod |
| 27 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 movements | compound |
| 28 | movements | movement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 growth | nmod |
| 29 | increasingly | increasingly | ADV | _ | 30 challenged | advmod |
| 30 | challenged | challenge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 remained | conj |
| 31 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 rule | amod |
| 32 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 challenged | obj |
| 33 | overseas | overseas | ADV | _ | 30 challenged | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | Portugal | World War | during the Estado Novo | neutral property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in war=Location | ||
| 2 | challenge | past | the postwar end of colonial legitimacy and the growth of African independence movements | Portuguese rule | which obl; increasingly, overseas property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | grow | African independence movements | nom growth «process 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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