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title: The largest urban agglomerations in Brazil are São Paulo, Rio de Jan… — Brazil · tree and pragmatics
description: The largest urban agglomerations in Brazil are São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Belo Horizonte—all in the Southeastern Region—with 21.1, 12.3, and 5.1 million inhabitants respectively. Who acts: largest urban agglomerations. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brazil» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brazil, sentence 387

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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 largest urban agglomerations in Brazil are São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Belo Horizonte—all in the Southeastern Region—with 21.1, 12.3, and 5.1 million inhabitants respectively.

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**Who acts:** largest urban agglomerations · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** São

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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 (largest urban agglomerations), 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:387
# text = The largest urban agglomerations in Brazil are São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Belo Horizonte—all in the Southeastern Region—with 21.1, 12.3, and 5.1 million inhabitants respectively.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
3	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	agglomerations	agglomeration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	São	São	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	Paulo	Paulo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Rio	Rio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	Janeiro	Janeiro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Belo	Belo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
17	Horizonte	Horizonte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Southeastern	Southeastern	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Region	Region	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	21.1	21.1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	12.3	12.3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	5.1	5.1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	compound	_	_
32	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
34	respectively	respectively	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the largest urban agglomerations in Brazil | São and Rio and Belo |  |  |  | Rio *conj*; Belo *conj*; all Southeastern Region and million inhabitants *appos* | tree rules |

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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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