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title: The conquest of Portugal and re-establishment of Christianity is one… — Lisbon · tree and pragmatics
description: The conquest of Portugal and re-establishment of Christianity is one of the most significant events in Lisbon's history, described in the chronicle Expugnatione Lyxbonensi, which describes, among other incidents, how the local bishop was killed by the crusaders and the city's residents prayed to the
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# Lisbon, sentence 65

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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 conquest of Portugal and re-establishment of Christianity is one of the most significant events in Lisbon's history, described in the chronicle Expugnatione Lyxbonensi, which describes, among other incidents, how the local bishop was killed by the crusaders and the city's residents prayed to the Virgin Mary as it happened.

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**Who acts:** conquest, Expugnatione, crusaders, other incidents, it · **What happens:** be, describe, kill, pray, happen · **To what, where:** one, chronicle, local bishop

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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 (conquest, Expugnatione, crusaders, other incidents), 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:65
# text = The conquest of Portugal and re-establishment of Christianity is one of the most significant events in Lisbon's history, described in the chronicle Expugnatione Lyxbonensi, which describes, among other incidents, how the local bishop was killed by the crusaders and the city's residents prayed to the Virgin Mary as it happened.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	re-establishment	re-establishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	14	advmod	_	_
14	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	Lisbon	Lisbon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	chronicle	chronicle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	Expugnatione	Expugnatione	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
26	Lyxbonensi	Lyxbonensi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	describes	describe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	among	among	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	40	advmod	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	bishop	bishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	conj	_	_
41	by	by	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	crusaders	crusader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	's	's	PART	POS	_	46	case	_	_
48	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	_
49	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	Virgin	Virgin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
54	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the conquest of Portugal and re-establishment of Christianity | one |  |  |  | of the significant events in Lisbon's history | tree rules |
| 2 | **describe** | participle |  |  |  | the chronicle |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **describe** | present | Expugnatione |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **kill** | past · passive | the crusaders and the city's residents | the local bishop |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 5 | **pray** | past | other incidents |  |  |  |  | to the Virgin Mary | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 6 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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