Portugal, sentence 212
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.
Until 1999, military service was compulsory for men at age 18 becoming officially suspended during peace time and replaced by one mandatory day of sensibilisation about the Armed Forces called Dia da Defesa Nacional (National Defence Day).
Who acts: military service · What happens: be, become, suspend, replace, call · To what, where: age, Armed Forces · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (military service), 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 | Until | until | ADP | _ | 2 1999 | case |
| 2 | 1999 | 1999 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 compulsory | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1999 | punct |
| 4 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 service | amod |
| 5 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 compulsory | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 compulsory | cop |
| 7 | compulsory | compulsory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 men | case |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 compulsory | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 age | case |
| 11 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 compulsory | obl |
| 12 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 age | flat |
| 13 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 suspended | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | officially | officially | ADV | _ | 15 suspended | advmod |
| 15 | suspended | suspend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 compulsory | conj |
| 16 | during | during | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 17 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 time | compound |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 suspended | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 replaced | cc |
| 20 | replaced | replace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 suspended | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 day | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 day | nummod |
| 23 | mandatory | mandatory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 day | compound |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 replaced | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 sensibilisation | case |
| 26 | sensibilisation | sensibilisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 day | nmod |
| 27 | about | about | ADP | _ | 30 Forces | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Forces | det |
| 29 | Armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Forces | amod |
| 30 | Forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 sensibilisation | nmod |
| 31 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 Forces | acl |
| 32 | Dia | Dia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Defesa | compound |
| 33 | da | Da | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Defesa | compound |
| 34 | Defesa | Defesa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 called | xcomp |
| 35 | Nacional | Nacional | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Defesa | flat |
| 36 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 39 Day | punct |
| 37 | National | National | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 Day | amod |
| 38 | Defence | Defence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Day | compound |
| 39 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Defesa | appos |
| 40 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 39 Day | punct |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 compulsory | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | military service | at age; until 1999 | for men; compulsory property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | become | gerund | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | suspend | participle · passive | time | officially property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | replace | participle | day | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | call | participle | the Armed Forces not said here | Dia da Defesa xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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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