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title: The use of circulation weather types to predict upwelling activity a… — Portugal · tree and pragmatics
description: The use of circulation weather types to predict upwelling activity along the western Iberian Peninsula coast". Who acts: use. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Portugal» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Portugal, sentence 1397

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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 use of circulation weather types to predict upwelling activity along the western Iberian Peninsula coast".

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**Who acts:** use · **What happens:** type, predict, upwell, use · **To what, where:** activity, circulation weather

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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 (use), 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:1397
# text = The use of circulation weather types to predict upwelling activity along the western Iberian Peninsula coast".
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	circulation	circulation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	types	type	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	predict	predict	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	upwelling	upwell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	activity	activity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	along	along	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	Iberian	Iberian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **type** | present | the use of circulation weather |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **predict** | to-infinitive | the use of circulation weather *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot clause=Topic |
| 3 | **upwell** | gerund | the use of circulation weather *not said here* | activity |  |  |  | along the western Peninsula coast | tree rules |
| 4 | **use** |  |  | circulation weather |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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