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title: The investments increased the airport's capacity from approximately… — Brasília · tree and pragmatics
description: The investments increased the airport's capacity from approximately 15 million passengers per year to 21 million by 2014. Who acts: investments. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brasília» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brasília, sentence 274

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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 investments increased the airport's capacity from approximately 15 million passengers per year to 21 million by 2014.

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**Who acts:** investments · **What happens:** increase · **To what, where:** capacity

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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 (investments), 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:274
# text = The investments increased the airport's capacity from approximately 15 million passengers per year to 21 million by 2014.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	investments	investment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	increased	increase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	airport	airport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	capacity	capacity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	_
11	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	passengers	passenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
13	per	per	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	compound	_	_
17	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **increase** | past | the investments | the airport's capacity |  |  |  | from million passengers per year; to 21 million by 2014 *result* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: agent=Patient capacity=Extent from passenger=Initial\_State to million=Result |

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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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