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title: An exceptional retrocession: the establishment of the Macau SAR from… — Portugal · tree and pragmatics
description: An exceptional retrocession: the establishment of the Macau SAR from a political perspective". e-Journal of Portuguese History. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Portugal» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Portugal, sentence 1161

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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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An exceptional retrocession: the establishment of the Macau SAR from a political perspective". e-Journal of Portuguese History.

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**What happens:** establish · **To what, where:** retrocession e-Journal, Macau SAR, political perspective

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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: 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:1161
# text = An exceptional retrocession: the establishment of the Macau SAR from a political perspective". e-Journal of Portuguese History.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	exceptional	exceptional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	retrocession	retrocession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	establishment	establishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Macau	Macau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	SAR	SAR	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	perspective	perspective	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
17	e-Journal	e-journal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	History	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **establish** |  |  | the Macau SAR |  | a political perspective |  |  | nom establishment «act transitive»: of=patient from=place |

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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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