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title: Brazilian cuisine varies greatly by region, reflecting the country's… — Brazil · tree and pragmatics
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# Brazil, sentence 541

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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 cuisine varies greatly by region, reflecting the country's varying mix of indigenous and immigrant populations.

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**Who acts:** Brazilian cuisine · **What happens:** vary, reflect · **To what, where:** country, mix

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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 (Brazilian cuisine), 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:541
# text = Brazilian cuisine varies greatly by region, reflecting the country's varying mix of indigenous and immigrant populations.
1	Brazilian	Brazilian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cuisine	cuisine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	varies	vary	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	reflecting	reflect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	varying	vary	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	_
13	mix	mix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	immigrant	immigrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	populations	population	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vary** | present | Brazilian cuisine |  |  |  |  | by region; greatly *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **reflect** | gerund | Brazilian cuisine *not said here* | the country |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **vary** | gerund | Brazilian cuisine *not said here* | mix of indigenous populations |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer mix=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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