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title: Among other influences, the Portuguese introduced the Portuguese lan… — Brazil · tree and pragmatics
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# Brazil, sentence 458

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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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Among other influences, the Portuguese introduced the Portuguese language, Roman Catholicism and colonial architectural styles.

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**Who acts:** Portuguese · **What happens:** introduce · **To what, where:** Portuguese language

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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 (Portuguese), 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:458
# text = Among other influences, the Portuguese introduced the Portuguese language, Roman Catholicism and colonial architectural styles.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	influences	influence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Catholicism	Catholicism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	architectural	architectural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	styles	style	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **introduce** | past | the Portuguese | the Portuguese language |  |  |  | among other influences | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=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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