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title: Paranoá Lake, a large artificial lake, was built to increase the amo… — Brasília · tree and pragmatics
description: Paranoá Lake, a large artificial lake, was built to increase the amount of water available and to maintain the region's humidity. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brasília» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brasília, sentence 82

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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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Paranoá Lake, a large artificial lake, was built to increase the amount of water available and to maintain the region's humidity.

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**What happens:** build, increase, maintain, amount · **To what, where:** Paranoá, amount, humidity, water

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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: 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:82
# text = Paranoá Lake, a large artificial lake, was built to increase the amount of water available and to maintain the region's humidity.
1	Paranoá	Paranoá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	artificial	artificial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	increase	increase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	available	available	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	maintain	maintain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	humidity	humidity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past · passive |  | Paranoá |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **increase** | to-infinitive |  | the amount of water |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer amount=Patient |
| 3 | **maintain** | to-infinitive |  | the region's humidity |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent humidity=Theme |
| 4 | **amount** |  |  | water |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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