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title: The Federal District Metro is not comprehensive so buses may provide… — Brasília · tree and pragmatics
description: The Federal District Metro is not comprehensive so buses may provide better access to the center. Who acts: Federal District Metro, buses. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brasília» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brasília, sentence 298

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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 Federal District Metro is not comprehensive so buses may provide better access to the center.

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**Who acts:** Federal District Metro, buses · **What happens:** not be, provide · **To what, where:** access, center

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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 (Federal District Metro, buses), 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:298
# text = The Federal District Metro is not comprehensive so buses may provide better access to the center.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Federal	Federal	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	District	District	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Metro	Metro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	comprehensive	comprehensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	buses	bus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
13	access	access	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | the Federal District Metro |  |  |  |  | comprehensive *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **provide** | may | buses | access | the center |  |  | well *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent access=Theme to center=Recipient |

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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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