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title: The Marajoara culture flourished on Marajó in the Amazon delta from… — Brazil · tree and pragmatics
description: The Marajoara culture flourished on Marajó in the Amazon delta from AD 400 to 1400, developing sophisticated pottery, social stratification, large populations, mound building, and complex social formations such as chiefdoms. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brazil» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brazil, sentence 40

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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 Marajoara culture flourished on Marajó in the Amazon delta from AD 400 to 1400, developing sophisticated pottery, social stratification, large populations, mound building, and complex social formations such as chiefdoms.

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**What happens:** flourish, develop · **To what, where:** Marajoara culture, Marajó, sophisticated pottery

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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: 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:40
# text = The Marajoara culture flourished on Marajó in the Amazon delta from AD 400 to 1400, developing sophisticated pottery, social stratification, large populations, mound building, and complex social formations such as chiefdoms.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Marajoara	Marajoara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	flourished	flourish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Marajó	Marajó	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	delta	delta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	AD	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	1400	1400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	developing	develop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
18	sophisticated	sophisticated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	pottery	pottery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	stratification	stratification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	populations	population	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	complex	complex	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	formations	formation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
34	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	36	case	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	fixed	_	_
36	chiefdoms	chiefdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flourish** | participle |  | the Marajoara culture and complex social formations such chiefdoms *not said here* |  | Marajó |  | in the Amazon delta from AD | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on marajó=Location |
| 2 | **develop** | gerund |  | sophisticated pottery and social stratification and large populations and mound building |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pottery=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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