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title: Brasília has a unique legal status, as it is an administrative regio… — Brasília · tree and pragmatics
description: Brasília has a unique legal status, as it is an administrative region rather than a municipality like other cities in Brazil. Who acts: Brasília, status. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brasília» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brasília, sentence 17

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From Wikipedia, [«Brasília»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasília), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Brasília has a unique legal status, as it is an administrative region rather than a municipality like other cities in Brazil.

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**Who acts:** Brasília, status · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** unique legal status, administrative region

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Brasília». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brasília, status), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Brasília:17
# text = Brasília has a unique legal status, as it is an administrative region rather than a municipality like other cities in Brazil.
1	Brasília	Brasília	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	unique	unique	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	legal	legal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	status	status	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
14	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	17	cc	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	municipality	municipality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Brasília | a unique legal status |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent status=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | status | a administrative region rather a municipality like other cities in Brazil |  |  |  | a municipality like other cities in Brazil *conj* | tree rules |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Brasília», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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