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title: The government commissioned Belgian geodesist and astronomer Luís Cr… — Brasília · tree and pragmatics
description: The government commissioned Belgian geodesist and astronomer Luís Cruls for a mission into the Central Plateau for surveying the land for the future capital, having done two expeditions in 1892 and 1894. Who acts: government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brasília» with its dependency tree and pragmati
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# Brasília, sentence 31

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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 government commissioned Belgian geodesist and astronomer Luís Cruls for a mission into the Central Plateau for surveying the land for the future capital, having done two expeditions in 1892 and 1894.

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**Who acts:** government · **What happens:** commission, survey, have, do · **To what, where:** Belgian geodesist, Central Plateau, land, two expeditions, 1892

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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 (government), 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:31
# text = The government commissioned Belgian geodesist and astronomer Luís Cruls for a mission into the Central Plateau for surveying the land for the future capital, having done two expeditions in 1892 and 1894.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	commissioned	commission	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Belgian	Belgian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	geodesist	geodesist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	astronomer	astronomer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	Luís	Luís	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Cruls	Crul	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mission	mission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
16	Plateau	Plateau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	surveying	survey	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
27	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	xcomp	_	_
28	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	expeditions	expedition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	1892	1892	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	1894	1894	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **commission** | past | the government | Belgian geodesist and astronomer |  | the Central Plateau |  | for a mission | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent geodesist=Theme |
| 2 | **survey** | gerund | the government *not said here* | the land |  |  |  | for the future capital | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent land=Theme for capital=Attribute |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | the government *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | participle | the government *not said here* | two expeditions |  | 1892 |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expedition=Eventuality |

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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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