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title: It is the strongest drought in Brazil since the beginning of measure… — Brazil · tree and pragmatics
description: It is the strongest drought in Brazil since the beginning of measurement in the 1950s, covering almost 60% of the country's territory. Who acts: north. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brazil» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brazil, sentence 159

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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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It is the strongest drought in Brazil since the beginning of measurement in the 1950s, covering almost 60% of the country's territory.

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**Who acts:** north · **What happens:** be, cover, begin · **To what, where:** strongest drought, Brazil, measurement

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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 (north), 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:159
# text = It is the strongest drought in Brazil since the beginning of measurement in the 1950s, covering almost 60% of the country's territory.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	drought	drought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	since	since	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	measurement	measurement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	1950s	1950	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
18	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | north | the strongest drought |  | Brazil | since the beginning of measurement in the 1950s |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cover** | gerund | north *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme %=Destination |
| 3 | **begin** |  |  | measurement in the 1950s |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event 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, «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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