--- title: With open arms, overlooking the whole city, it resembles the Corcova… — Lisbon · tree and pragmatics description: With open arms, overlooking the whole city, it resembles the Corcovado monument in Rio de Janeiro, and was built after World War II, as a memorial of thanksgiving for Portugal's being spared the horrors and destruction of the war. Who acts: open arms, city. 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With open arms, overlooking the whole city, it resembles the Corcovado monument in Rio de Janeiro, and was built after World War II, as a memorial of thanksgiving for Portugal's being spared the horrors and destruction of the war. **Who acts:** open arms, city · **What happens:** overlook, resemble, build, spare, destroy · **To what, where:** whole city, Corcovado monument, Rio, horrors, war 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 (open arms, city), 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:308 # text = With open arms, overlooking the whole city, it resembles the Corcovado monument in Rio de Janeiro, and was built after World War II, as a memorial of thanksgiving for Portugal's being spared the horrors and destruction of the war. 1 With with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 overlooking overlook VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 resembles resemble VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 Corcovado Corcovado PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 monument monument NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Rio Rio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 de de PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ _ 18 Janeiro Janeiro PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 23 after after ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 War War PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 II II NUM CD NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card 25 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 as as ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 memorial memorial NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 parataxis _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 thanksgiving thanksgiving NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 for for SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 34 Portugal Portugal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 spared spare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 advcl _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 horrors horror NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 destruction destruction NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **overlook** | gerund | open arms *not said here* | the whole city | | | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme | | 2 | **resemble** | present | city | the Corcovado monument | | Rio | | with open arms | tree rules | | 3 | **build** | past · passive | city *not said here* | | | | after World War | a memorial of thanksgiving *parataxis* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V» | | 4 | **spare** | gerund · passive | city *not said here* | the horrors and destruction of the war | | | | Portugal *nmod:poss* | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: horror=Asset | | 5 | **destroy** | | | the war | | | | | nom destruction «act 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 307](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Lisbon/307/) - next →: [sentence 309](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Lisbon/309/) - ↑ back to [Lisbon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Lisbon/)