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title: The palace was designed, along with the rest of the city of Brasília… — Brasília · tree and pragmatics
description: The palace was designed, along with the rest of the city of Brasília, by Oscar Niemeyer and inaugurated in 1958. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brasília» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brasília, sentence 220

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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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The palace was designed, along with the rest of the city of Brasília, by Oscar Niemeyer and inaugurated in 1958.

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**What happens:** design, inaugurate · **To what, where:** palace, 1958

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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: 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:220
# text = The palace was designed, along with the rest of the city of Brasília, by Oscar Niemeyer and inaugurated in 1958.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	designed	design	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	along	along	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Brasília	Brasília	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Oscar	Oscar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
18	Niemeyer	Niemeyer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	inaugurated	inaugurate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	1958	1958	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **design** | past · passive |  | the palace |  |  |  | the rest of the city of Brasília *conj*; Oscar *parataxis* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **inaugurate** | participle |  |  |  | 1958 |  |  | 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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