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title: By the mid-20th century, the area had experienced some decline as in… — Lisbon · tree and pragmatics
description: By the mid-20th century, the area had experienced some decline as industries closed down. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lisbon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lisbon, sentence 194

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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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By the mid-20th century, the area had experienced some decline as industries closed down.

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**What happens:** experience, close down · **To what, where:** area, industries

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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: 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:194
# text = By the mid-20th century, the area had experienced some decline as industries closed down.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	mid-20th	mid-20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	experienced	experience	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	decline	decline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	industries	industry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **experience** | past · perfect · passive |  | the area |  |  | century | some decline *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **close down** | participle |  | industries *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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