--- title: The district takes its name from its benefactor, Sebastião José de C… — Lisbon · tree and pragmatics description: The district takes its name from its benefactor, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, who was the minister of Joseph I of Portugal (1750–1777) and a key figure of the Portuguese Enlightenment. Who acts: district, Sebastião José, 1st Marquis. 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The district takes its name from its benefactor, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, who was the minister of Joseph I of Portugal (1750–1777) and a key figure of the Portuguese Enlightenment. **Who acts:** district, Sebastião José, 1st Marquis · **What happens:** take, e, be, name, figure · **To what, where:** name, benefactor, Melo, minister, Portuguese Enlightenment 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 (district, Sebastião José, 1st Marquis), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:234 # text = The district takes its name from its benefactor, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, who was the minister of Joseph I of Portugal (1750–1777) and a key figure of the Portuguese Enlightenment. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 district district NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 benefactor benefactor NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 Sebastião Sebastião PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 José José PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 de de PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ _ 13 Carvalho Carvalho PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ _ 14 e e VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 15 Melo Melo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 1st 1st ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 18 amod _ _ 18 Marquis Marquis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Pombal Pombal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Joseph Joseph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 conj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Portugal Portugal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 1750 1750 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 33 – – SYM SYM ExtPos=ADP 34 case _ SpaceAfter=No 34 1777 1777 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 key key ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 figure figure NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 Portuguese portuguese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 Enlightenment enlightenment NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present | the district | district's name | | district's benefactor | | 1st Marquis of Pombal *parataxis* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent name=Theme from benefactor=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **e** | past | Sebastião José | Melo | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | past | 1st Marquis of Pombal | the minister | | | | of Joseph; I *conj* | tree rules | | 4 | **name** | | district | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 5 | **figure** | | | the Portuguese Enlightenment | | | | | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 233](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Lisbon/233/) - next →: [sentence 235](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Lisbon/235/) - ↑ back to [Lisbon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Lisbon/)