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title: The regime introduced reforms intended to strengthen ties between th… — Portugal · tree and pragmatics
description: The regime introduced reforms intended to strengthen ties between the metropole and the colonies, yet the empire was no unified customs and economic area. Who acts: empire. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Portugal» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Portugal, sentence 101

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From Wikipedia, [«Portugal»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal), 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 regime introduced reforms intended to strengthen ties between the metropole and the colonies, yet the empire was no unified customs and economic area.

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**Who acts:** empire · **What happens:** introduce, intend, strengthen, be · **To what, where:** introduced reforms, ties, unified customs, regime

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Portugal». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (empire), 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:Portugal:101
# text = The regime introduced reforms intended to strengthen ties between the metropole and the colonies, yet the empire was no unified customs and economic area.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	regime	regime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	reforms	reform	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	strengthen	strengthen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	ties	tie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	between	between	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	metropole	metropole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	colonies	colony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	no	no	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	unified	unified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **introduce** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **intend** | participle |  | introduced reforms *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **strengthen** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | ties |  |  |  | between the metropole and the colonies | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tie=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the empire | unified customs and economic area |  |  |  | economic area *conj* | 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, «Portugal», 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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