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title: Brazilian society is more markedly divided by social class lines, al… — Brazil · tree and pragmatics
description: Brazilian society is more markedly divided by social class lines, although a high income disparity is found between race groups, so racism and classism often overlap. Who acts: social class lines, racism. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brazil» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brazil, sentence 399

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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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Brazilian society is more markedly divided by social class lines, although a high income disparity is found between race groups, so racism and classism often overlap.

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**Who acts:** social class lines, racism · **What happens:** divide, find, overlap · **To what, where:** Brazilian society, high income disparity

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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 (social class lines, racism), 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:399
# text = Brazilian society is more markedly divided by social class lines, although a high income disparity is found between race groups, so racism and classism often overlap.
1	Brazilian	Brazilian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	markedly	markedly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	income	income	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	disparity	disparity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
19	between	between	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
24	racism	racism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	classism	classism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	often	often	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	overlap	overlap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divide** | present · passive | social class lines | Brazilian society |  |  |  | markedly *property* | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | present · passive |  | a high income disparity |  |  |  | between race groups | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **overlap** | present | racism and classism |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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