--- title: It has been steadily falling since the 1960s, from 3.04% per year be… — Brazil · tree and pragmatics description: It has been steadily falling since the 1960s, from 3.04% per year between 1950 and 1960 to 1.05% in 2008 and is expected to fall to a negative value of –0.29% by 2050, thus completing the demographic transition. Who acts: rate. 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It has been steadily falling since the 1960s, from 3.04% per year between 1950 and 1960 to 1.05% in 2008 and is expected to fall to a negative value of –0.29% by 2050, thus completing the demographic transition. **Who acts:** rate · **What happens:** fall, expect, complete · **To what, where:** demographic transition 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 (rate), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:383 # text = It has been steadily falling since the 1960s, from 3.04% per year between 1950 and 1960 to 1.05% in 2008 and is expected to fall to a negative value of –0.29% by 2050, thus completing the demographic transition. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 aux _ _ 4 steadily steadily ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 since since ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 1960s 1960s NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 3.04 3.04 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 13 per per ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 between between ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 1950 1950 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 1960 1960 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 1.05 1.05 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 2008 2008 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 expected expect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 negative negative ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 value value NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 – - PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 0.29 0.29 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 37 by by ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 2050 2050 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 thus thus ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 completing complete VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 demographic demographic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 transition transition NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | present · perfect · progressive | rate | | | | since the 1960s | steadily *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from %=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **expect** | present · passive | rate *not said here* | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: clause=Theme | | 3 | **fall** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | rate *not said here* | | | | | to a negative value *result*; by 2050 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient to value=Result by 2050=Extent | | 4 | **complete** | gerund | rate *not said here* | the demographic transition | | | | thus *property* | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent transition=Eventuality | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 382](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Brazil/382/) - next →: [sentence 384](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Brazil/384/) - ↑ back to [Brazil](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Brazil/)