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title: Brasília attempted to host the 2000 Summer Olympics, but withdrew it… — Brasília · tree and pragmatics
description: Brasília attempted to host the 2000 Summer Olympics, but withdrew its application. Who acts: Brasília, champion. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brasília» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brasília, sentence 319

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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 attempted to host the 2000 Summer Olympics, but withdrew its application.

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**Who acts:** Brasília, champion · **What happens:** attempt, host, withdraw, apply · **To what, where:** 2000 Summer Olympics, application

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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, champion), 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:319
# text = Brasília attempted to host the 2000 Summer Olympics, but withdrew its application.
1	Brasília	Brasília	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	attempted	attempt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	host	host	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	Summer	Summer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Olympics	Olympic	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	withdrew	withdraw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	application	application	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attempt** | past | Brasília |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **host** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Brasília *not said here* |  | the 2000 Summer Olympics |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent olympic=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **withdraw** | past | Brasília *not said here* | champion's application |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent application=Theme |
| 4 | **apply** |  | champion |  |  |  |  |  | nom application «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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