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title: However, sparked by discontent accumulated over decades from corrupt… — Brazil · tree and pragmatics
description: However, sparked by discontent accumulated over decades from corruption, police brutality, inefficiencies of the political establishment and public service, numerous peaceful protests erupted in Brazil in the middle of the first term of Dilma Rousseff, who had succeeded Lula after winning election i
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# Brazil, sentence 119

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From Wikipedia, [«Brazil»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil), 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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However, sparked by discontent accumulated over decades from corruption, police brutality, inefficiencies of the political establishment and public service, numerous peaceful protests erupted in Brazil in the middle of the first term of Dilma Rousseff, who had succeeded Lula after winning election in 2010 and again in 2014 by narrow margins.

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**Who acts:** numerous peaceful protests, Dilma · **What happens:** spark, accumulate, erupt, succeed, win · **To what, where:** discontent, corruption, Brazil, Lula, 2010

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Brazil». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (numerous peaceful protests, Dilma), 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:Brazil:119
# text = However, sparked by discontent accumulated over decades from corruption, police brutality, inefficiencies of the political establishment and public service, numerous peaceful protests erupted in Brazil in the middle of the first term of Dilma Rousseff, who had succeeded Lula after winning election in 2010 and again in 2014 by narrow margins.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sparked	spark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	discontent	discontent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	accumulated	accumulate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	decades	decade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	corruption	corruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	police	police	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	brutality	brutality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	inefficiencies	inefficiency	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	establishment	establishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	protests	protest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	erupted	erupt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	36	amod	_	_
36	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Dilma	Dilma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
39	Rousseff	Rousseff	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
42	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	38	acl	_	_
44	Lula	Lula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
45	after	after	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	winning	win	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	47	amod	_	_
47	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	2010	2010	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	43	obl	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	again	again	ADV	RB	_	49	conj	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	43	obl	_	_
54	by	by	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	margins	margin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spark** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by discontent and police brutality and inefficiencies of the political establishment and public service; however *property* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **accumulate** | participle |  | discontent and police brutality and inefficiencies of the political establishment and public service *not said here* |  | corruption | decade |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from corruption=Source |
| 3 | **erupt** | past | numerous peaceful protests |  |  | Brazil |  | in the middle of the first term | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in brazil=Location |
| 4 | **succeed** | past · perfect | Dilma | Lula |  | 2010 | after winning election | in 2014; by narrow margins | tree rules |
| 5 | **win** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=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, «Brazil», 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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