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title: Lisbon is amongst the two Portuguese cities (the other being Porto)… — Lisbon · tree and pragmatics
description: Lisbon is amongst the two Portuguese cities (the other being Porto) to be recognised as a global city, and it is also home to three companies in the Global 2000 (EDP Group, Galp Energia and Jerónimo Martins). Who acts: city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lisbon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lisbon, sentence 15

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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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Lisbon is amongst the two Portuguese cities (the other being Porto) to be recognised as a global city, and it is also home to three companies in the Global 2000 (EDP Group, Galp Energia and Jerónimo Martins).

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**Who acts:** city · **What happens:** be, recognise · **To what, where:** other Porto, home, Lisbon

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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 (city), 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:15
# text = Lisbon is amongst the two Portuguese cities (the other being Porto) to be recognised as a global city, and it is also home to three companies in the Global 2000 (EDP Group, Galp Energia and Jerónimo Martins).
1	Lisbon	Lisbon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
12	Porto	Porto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	global	global	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	also	also	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
32	Global	global	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
33	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	compound	_	_
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	EDP	EDP	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Group	Group	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	Galp	Galp	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
39	Energia	Energia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	Jerónimo	Jerónimo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
42	Martins	Martins	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | amongst the two Portuguese cities | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | gerund |  | the other Porto |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **recognise** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | as a global city | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as city=Attribute |
| 4 | **is a** | present | city | home |  |  |  | to three companies in the Global 2000 EDP Group and Jerónimo | tree rules |

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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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