--- title: In 1922 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Brazil's independence,… — Brasília · tree and pragmatics description: In 1922 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Brazil's independence, President Epitácio Pessoa ordered the construction of an obelisk in the Cruls Quadrilateral, known as the Foundation Stone of Brasília, to mark the location of the future capital. Who acts: Epitácio. 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In 1922 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Brazil's independence, President Epitácio Pessoa ordered the construction of an obelisk in the Cruls Quadrilateral, known as the Foundation Stone of Brasília, to mark the location of the future capital. **Who acts:** Epitácio · **What happens:** celebrate, order, know, mark, construct · **To what, where:** 100th anniversary, construction, 1922, Cruls Quadrilateral, location, obelisk 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 (Epitácio), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:34 # text = In 1922 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Brazil's independence, President Epitácio Pessoa ordered the construction of an obelisk in the Cruls Quadrilateral, known as the Foundation Stone of Brasília, to mark the location of the future capital. 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1922 1922 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 obl _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 celebrate celebrate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 acl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 100th 100th ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 7 amod _ _ 7 anniversary anniversary NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 Brazil Brazil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 independence independence NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 13 President President PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:desc _ _ 14 Epitácio Epitácio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 Pessoa Pessoa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ _ 16 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 construction construction NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 obelisk obelisk NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 Cruls Crul PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 25 compound _ _ 25 Quadrilateral quadrilateral NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 28 as as ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 Foundation Foundation PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 Stone Stone PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Brasília Brasília PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 mark mark VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 location location NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 future future ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **celebrate** | to-infinitive | | the 100th anniversary of Brazil's independence | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anniversary=Theme | | 2 | **order** | past | Epitácio President | the construction of a obelisk in the Cruls Quadrilateral | | 1922 | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent construction=Theme | | 3 | **know** | participle | | the Cruls Quadrilateral *not said here* | | | | as the Foundation Stone of Brasília | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as stone=Attribute | | 4 | **mark** | to-infinitive | Epitácio President *not said here* | the location of the future capital | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent location=Destination | | 5 | **construct** | | | a obelisk in the Cruls Quadrilateral | | | | | nom construction «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Brasília/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Brasília/35/) - ↑ back to [Brasília](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Brasília/)