---
title: Climate change in Brazil is causing higher temperatures and longer-l… — Brazil · tree and pragmatics
description: Climate change in Brazil is causing higher temperatures and longer-lasting heatwaves, changing precipitation patterns, more intense wildfires and heightened fire risk. Who acts: Climate change. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brazil» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Brazil/161/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Brazil](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Brazil/) / 161

# Brazil, sentence 161

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Climate change in Brazil is causing higher temperatures and longer-lasting heatwaves, changing precipitation patterns, more intense wildfires and heightened fire risk.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Climate change · **What happens:** cause, last, change, heighten · **To what, where:** higher temperatures, heatwaves, precipitation patterns, fire risk

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Climate change), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:161
# text = Climate change in Brazil is causing higher temperatures and longer-lasting heatwaves, changing precipitation patterns, more intense wildfires and heightened fire risk.
1	Climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	causing	cause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	temperatures	temperature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	lasting	last	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
13	heatwaves	heatwave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	changing	change	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
16	precipitation	precipitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	patterns	pattern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
20	intense	intense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	wildfires	wildfire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	heightened	heighten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
24	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	risk	risk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | present · progressive | Climate change in Brazil | higher temperatures |  |  |  | intense wildfires *obl*; long *property* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition temperature=Patient |
| 2 | **last** | gerund | Climate change in Brazil *not said here* | heatwaves |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme heatwave=Value |
| 3 | **change** | gerund | Climate change in Brazil *not said here* | precipitation patterns |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Patient |
| 4 | **heighten** | past | Climate change in Brazil *not said here* | fire risk |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent risk=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 160](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Brazil/160/)
- next →: [sentence 162](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Brazil/162/)
- ↑ back to [Brazil](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Brazil/)