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title: It has a history that goes back 500 years to the time, when Pedro Ál… — Brazil · tree and pragmatics
description: It has a history that goes back 500 years to the time, when Pedro Álvares Cabral landed in Brazil in 1500. Who acts: architecture, history, Pedro. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brazil» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brazil, sentence 465

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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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It has a history that goes back 500 years to the time, when Pedro Álvares Cabral landed in Brazil in 1500.

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**Who acts:** architecture, history, Pedro · **What happens:** have, go back, land · **To what, where:** history, Brazil

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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 (architecture, history, Pedro), 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:465
# text = It has a history that goes back 500 years to the time, when Pedro Álvares Cabral landed in Brazil in 1500.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
15	Pedro	Pedro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	Álvares	Álvares	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	Cabral	Cabral	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
18	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	1500	1500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | architecture | a history |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Patient |
| 2 | **go back** | present | a history |  |  |  | time; year |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **land** | past | Pedro |  |  | Brazil |  | in 1500 | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in brazil=Destination |

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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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