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title: The mainland, commonly referred to as Continental Portugal, is locat… — Portugal · tree and pragmatics
description: The mainland, commonly referred to as Continental Portugal, is located in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, while Madeira and the Azores lie in the Atlantic Ocean. Who acts: Madeira. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Portugal» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Portugal, sentence 111

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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 mainland, commonly referred to as Continental Portugal, is located in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, while Madeira and the Azores lie in the Atlantic Ocean.

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**Who acts:** Madeira · **What happens:** refer, locate, lie · **To what, where:** mainland, southwest, Atlantic Ocean

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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 (Madeira), 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:111
# text = The mainland, commonly referred to as Continental Portugal, is located in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, while Madeira and the Azores lie in the Atlantic Ocean.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mainland	mainland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	commonly	commonly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	referred	refer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Continental	continental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	southwest	southwest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Iberian	Iberian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Southwestern	Southwestern	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	Madeira	Madeira	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Azores	Azore	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
29	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | participle |  | the mainland *not said here* |  |  |  | as Continental Portugal; commonly *property* | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **locate** | present · passive |  | the mainland |  | the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie** | present | Madeira and the Azores |  |  | the Atlantic Ocean |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ocean=Location |

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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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