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title: The country's total railway track length was 30576 km in 2015, as co… — Brazil · tree and pragmatics
description: The country's total railway track length was 30576 km in 2015, as compared with 31848 km in 1970, making it the ninth largest network in the world. Who acts: total track length. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brazil» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brazil, sentence 364

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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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The country's total railway track length was 30576 km in 2015, as compared with 31848 km in 1970, making it the ninth largest network in the world.

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**Who acts:** total track length · **What happens:** be, compare, make · **To what, where:** 30576 km, 2015, 1970, length

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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 (total track length), 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:364
# text = The country's total railway track length was 30576 km in 2015, as compared with 31848 km in 1970, making it the ninth largest network in the world.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	30576	30576	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	31848	31848	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	1970	1970	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	ninth	ninth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	network	network	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the country's total track length | 30576 km |  | 2015 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **compare** | participle | the country's total track length *not said here* |  |  | 1970 |  | with 31848 km | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with km=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | the country's total track length *not said here* | length |  |  |  | the ninth largest network *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary network=Product |

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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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