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title: The inauguration of the bridge over the Tagus allowed a rapid connec… — Lisbon · tree and pragmatics
description: The inauguration of the bridge over the Tagus allowed a rapid connection between both sides of the river. Who acts: inauguration. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lisbon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lisbon, sentence 111

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From Wikipedia, [«Lisbon»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon), 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 inauguration of the bridge over the Tagus allowed a rapid connection between both sides of the river.

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**Who acts:** inauguration · **What happens:** allow, inaugurate · **To what, where:** rapid connection, bridge

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lisbon». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inauguration), 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:Lisbon:111
# text = The inauguration of the bridge over the Tagus allowed a rapid connection between both sides of the river.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	inauguration	inauguration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Tagus	Tagus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	allowed	allow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	connection	connection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | past | the inauguration of the bridge over the Tagus | a rapid connection |  |  |  | between both sides of the river | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent connection=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **inaugurate** |  |  | the bridge over the Tagus |  |  |  |  | nom inauguration «act transitive»: of=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, «Lisbon», 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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