Portugal, sentence 165
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.
Portugal has a civil law system based on Roman law and on Canon Law and influenced by German civil law.
Who acts: Portugal · What happens: have, base, influence · To what, where: civil law system, Roman law
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), 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 | Portugal | Portugal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 system | det |
| 4 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 system | amod |
| 5 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 system | compound |
| 6 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 7 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 system | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 law | case |
| 9 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 law | amod |
| 10 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 based | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Law | cc |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 Law | case |
| 13 | Canon | Canon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Law | compound |
| 14 | Law | Law | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 law | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 influenced | cc |
| 16 | influenced | influence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 based | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 law | case |
| 18 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 law | amod |
| 19 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 law | amod |
| 20 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 influenced | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Portugal | a civil law system | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent system=Patient | ||||
| 2 | base | participle | a civil law system not said here | Roman law and Canon Law | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on law=Source | ||||
| 3 | influence | participle | by German civil law | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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