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title: The sovereign debt crisis exacerbated poor labour conditions and low… — Lisbon · tree and pragmatics
description: The sovereign debt crisis exacerbated poor labour conditions and low purchasing power. Who acts: debt crisis. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lisbon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lisbon, sentence 366

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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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The sovereign debt crisis exacerbated poor labour conditions and low purchasing power.

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**Who acts:** debt crisis · **What happens:** exacerbate, purchase · **To what, where:** poor labour conditions, debt crisis

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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 (debt crisis), 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:366
# text = The sovereign debt crisis exacerbated poor labour conditions and low purchasing power.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	crisis	crisis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	exacerbated	exacerbate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	purchasing	purchase	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exacerbate** | participle | the debt crisis *not said here* | poor labour conditions and low purchasing power |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent condition=Patient |
| 2 | **purchase** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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