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title: However, the leadership in Portugal, resentful of the new status of… — Brazil · tree and pragmatics
description: However, the leadership in Portugal, resentful of the new status of its larger colony, continued to demand the return of the court to Lisbon (see Liberal Revolution of 1820). Who acts: court. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brazil» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brazil, sentence 65

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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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However, the leadership in Portugal, resentful of the new status of its larger colony, continued to demand the return of the court to Lisbon (see Liberal Revolution of 1820).

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**Who acts:** court · **What happens:** continue, demand, see, return · **To what, where:** return, Lisbon, Liberal Revolution

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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 (court), 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:65
# text = However, the leadership in Portugal, resentful of the new status of its larger colony, continued to demand the return of the court to Lisbon (see Liberal Revolution of 1820).
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	leadership	leadership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	resentful	resentful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	status	status	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	demand	demand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Lisbon	Lisbon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
30	Liberal	Liberal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Revolution	Revolution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	1820	1820	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **demand** *speech: request* | to-infinitive |  | the return of the court | Lisbon |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme return=Precondition |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive |  | Liberal Revolution of 1820 |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer revolution=Stimulus |
| 5 | **return** |  | the court |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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