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title: Brazil's current constitution, enacted in 1988, defines it as a demo… — Brazil · tree and pragmatics
description: Brazil's current constitution, enacted in 1988, defines it as a democratic federal republic. Who acts: current constitution, Brazil. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brazil» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brazil, sentence 22

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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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Brazil's current constitution, enacted in 1988, defines it as a democratic federal republic.

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**Who acts:** current constitution, Brazil · **What happens:** enact, define, constitute · **To what, where:** current constitution, 1988, governance

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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 (current constitution, Brazil), 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:22
# text = Brazil's current constitution, enacted in 1988, defines it as a democratic federal republic.
1	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	current	current	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	enacted	enact	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1988	1988	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	defines	define	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	democratic	democratic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	federal	federal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enact** | participle |  | Brazil's current constitution *not said here* |  | 1988 |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **define** | present | Brazil's current constitution | governance |  |  |  | as a democratic federal republic | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as republic=Attribute |
| 3 | **constitute** |  | Brazil |  |  |  |  |  | nom constitution «communication transitive»: poss=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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