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title: It is spoken by the so-called "Brasiguayos", Brazilians or descendan… — Paraguay · tree and pragmatics
description: It is spoken by the so-called "Brasiguayos", Brazilians or descendants who crossed west of the border from the 1970s seeking cheap land. Who acts: descendants, 1970s. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Paraguay» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Paraguay, sentence 335

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From Wikipedia, [«Paraguay»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguay), 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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It is spoken by the so-called "Brasiguayos", Brazilians or descendants who crossed west of the border from the 1970s seeking cheap land.

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**Who acts:** descendants, 1970s · **What happens:** speak, call, cross, seek · **To what, where:** Portuguese, 1970s, cheap land · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Paraguay». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (descendants, 1970s), 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:Paraguay:335
# text = It is spoken by the so-called "Brasiguayos", Brazilians or descendants who crossed west of the border from the 1970s seeking cheap land.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Brasiguayos	Brasiguayos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Brazilians	Brazilian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	descendants	descendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	west	west	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	1970s	1970s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
25	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	cheap	cheap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | Portuguese |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | Brasiguayos and Brazilians or descendants *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cross** | past | descendants |  |  | the 1970s |  | of the border; west *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme of border=Initial\_Location from 1970s=Destination |
| 4 | **seek** | gerund | the 1970s *not said here* | cheap land |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=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, «Paraguay», 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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