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title: Court decisions set out interpretive guidelines; however, they are s… — Brazil · tree and pragmatics
description: Court decisions set out interpretive guidelines; however, they are seldom binding on other specific cases. Who acts: Court decisions, guidelines. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brazil» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brazil, sentence 230

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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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Court decisions set out interpretive guidelines; however, they are seldom binding on other specific cases.

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**Who acts:** Court decisions, guidelines · **What happens:** set out, bind · **To what, where:** interpretive guidelines, Court decisions, other specific cases

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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 (Court decisions, guidelines), 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:230
# text = Court decisions set out interpretive guidelines; however, they are seldom binding on other specific cases.
1	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	decisions	decision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	interpretive	interpretive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	guidelines	guideline	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	however	however	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	seldom	seldom	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	binding	bind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	specific	specific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | participle | Court decisions *not said here* | interpretive guidelines |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bind** | present · progressive | guidelines *= guideline* | Court decisions *not said here* |  | other specific cases |  | however, seldom *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decision=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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