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title: Each state and the Federal District has a representation of three se… — Brazil · tree and pragmatics
description: Each state and the Federal District has a representation of three senators, who are elected by popular ballot for a term of eight years. Who acts: state, popular ballot. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brazil» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brazil, sentence 211

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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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Each state and the Federal District has a representation of three senators, who are elected by popular ballot for a term of eight years.

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**Who acts:** state, popular ballot · **What happens:** have, elect, represent, term · **To what, where:** representation, three senators, eight years

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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 (state, popular ballot), 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:211
# text = Each state and the Federal District has a representation of three senators, who are elected by popular ballot for a term of eight years.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Federal	Federal	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	District	District	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	representation	representation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	senators	senator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	ballot	ballot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | each state and the Federal District | a representation of three senators |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent representation=Patient |
| 2 | **elect** | present · passive | popular ballot | three senators |  |  |  | for a term of eight years | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **represent** |  |  | three senators |  |  |  |  | nom representation «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **term** |  |  | eight years |  |  |  |  | nom term «communication 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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