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title: Furthermore, in 1994, Lisbon was the European Capital of Culture and… — Lisbon · tree and pragmatics
description: Furthermore, in 1994, Lisbon was the European Capital of Culture and, in 1998, organised the Expo '98 (1998 Lisbon World Exposition). Who acts: Lisbon, European Capital. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lisbon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lisbon, sentence 316

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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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Furthermore, in 1994, Lisbon was the European Capital of Culture and, in 1998, organised the Expo '98 (1998 Lisbon World Exposition).

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**Who acts:** Lisbon, European Capital · **What happens:** be, organise · **To what, where:** European Capital, Expo, 1994

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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 (Lisbon, European Capital), 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:316
# text = Furthermore, in 1994, Lisbon was the European Capital of Culture and, in 1998, organised the Expo '98 (1998 Lisbon World Exposition).
1	Furthermore	furthermore	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	1994	1994	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	Lisbon	Lisbon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Capital	Capital	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Culture	Culture	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1998	1998	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
18	organised	organise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Expo	Expo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	'	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	98	98	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	list	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	1998	1998	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	appos	_	_
25	Lisbon	Lisbon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Exposition	exposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Lisbon | the European Capital |  |  |  | of Culture | tree rules |
| 2 | **organise** | past | the European Capital | the Expo |  | 1994 |  |  | 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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