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title: This may be due to the fact that Lisbon city's age structure is olde… — Lisbon · tree and pragmatics
description: This may be due to the fact that Lisbon city's age structure is older than the one found in the surrounding areas and, in general, younger generations tend to be less religious. Who acts: This, younger generations. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lisbon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lisbon, sentence 341

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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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This may be due to the fact that Lisbon city's age structure is older than the one found in the surrounding areas and, in general, younger generations tend to be less religious.

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**Who acts:** This, younger generations · **What happens:** be, find, surround, tend · **To what, where:** one, surrounding areas

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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 (This, younger generations), 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:341
# text = This may be due to the fact that Lisbon city's age structure is older than the one found in the surrounding areas and, in general, younger generations tend to be less religious.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
4	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
9	Lisbon	Lisbon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	structure	structure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	surrounding	surround	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	amod	_	_
23	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	amod	_	_
30	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	tend	tend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
34	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	35	advmod	_	_
35	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | may | This |  |  |  |  | than the one; the fact *nsubj*; Lisbon city's age structure *nsubj*; old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | participle |  | the one *not said here* |  | the surrounding areas |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **surround** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **be** |  | This *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **tend** | present | younger generations |  |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | to-infinitive | younger generations *not said here* |  |  |  |  | less, religious *property* | 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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