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title: Political purges and state crisis in Portugal's transition to democr… — Portugal · tree and pragmatics
description: Political purges and state crisis in Portugal's transition to democracy, 1975—76". Who acts: Portugal. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Portugal» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Portugal, sentence 1356

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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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Political purges and state crisis in Portugal's transition to democracy, 1975—76".

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**Who acts:** Portugal · **What happens:** transition · **To what, where:** Political purges

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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 (Portugal), 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:1356
# text = Political purges and state crisis in Portugal's transition to democracy, 1975—76".
1	Political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	purges	purge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	crisis	crisis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	transition	transition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	democracy	democracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	1975	1975	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	—	SYM	SYM	_	15	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	76	76	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **transition** |  | Portugal |  |  |  |  | to democracy | nom transition «act intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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