--- title: Costa attempted to introduce a Brazil that was more equitable, he al… — Brasília · tree and pragmatics description: Costa attempted to introduce a Brazil that was more equitable, he also designed housing for the working classes that was separated from the upper- and middle-class housing and was visually different, with the intention of avoiding slums (favelas) in the urban periphery. 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Costa attempted to introduce a Brazil that was more equitable, he also designed housing for the working classes that was separated from the upper- and middle-class housing and was visually different, with the intention of avoiding slums (favelas) in the urban periphery. **Who acts:** Costa, Brazil, intention · **What happens:** attempt, introduce, be, design, house, separate · **To what, where:** Brazil, working classes, slums, urban periphery 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 (Costa, Brazil, intention), 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:50 # text = Costa attempted to introduce a Brazil that was more equitable, he also designed housing for the working classes that was separated from the upper- and middle-class housing and was visually different, with the intention of avoiding slums (favelas) in the urban periphery. 1 Costa Costa 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 introduce introduce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Brazil Brazil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 10 equitable equitable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 also also ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 designed design VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 housing house VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 xcomp _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 working working NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 classes class NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 separated separate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 25 upper upper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 middle middle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 housing housing NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 visually visually ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 intention intention NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 40 of of SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 41 avoiding avoid VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 39 acl _ _ 42 slums slum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ _ 43 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 favelas favela NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 44 punct _ _ 46 in in ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 urban urban ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 periphery periphery NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **attempt** | past | Costa | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **introduce** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Costa *not said here* | a Brazil | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brazil=Patient | | 3 | **is** | past | a Brazil | | | | | equitable *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **design** | past | Costa | | | | | the intention *parataxis* | tree rules | | 5 | **house** | gerund | Costa *not said here* | | | | | for the working classes | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | | 6 | **separate** | past · passive | | the working classes | | | | from the upper class housing | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from housing=Co-Patient | | 7 | **is** | past | Costa *not said here* | | | | | different, visually *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **avoid** | gerund | the intention *not said here* | slums | | the urban periphery | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent slum=Location | 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 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Brasília/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Brasília/51/) - ↑ back to [Brasília](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Brasília/)