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title: Portugal has been a semi-presidential representative democratic repu… — Portugal · tree and pragmatics
description: Portugal has been a semi-presidential representative democratic republic since the ratification of the Constitution of 1976. Who acts: Portugal. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Portugal» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Portugal, sentence 151

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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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Portugal has been a semi-presidential representative democratic republic since the ratification of the Constitution of 1976.

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**Who acts:** Portugal · **What happens:** be, ratify · **To what, where:** semi-presidential representative democratic republic, Constitution

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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:151
# text = Portugal has been a semi-presidential representative democratic republic since the ratification of the Constitution of 1976.
1	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	semi-presidential	semi-presidential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	representative	representative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	democratic	democratic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	since	since	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ratification	ratification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Constitution	Constitution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1976	1976	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present · perfect | Portugal | a semi-presidential representative democratic republic |  |  | since the ratification of the Constitution of 1976 |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ratify** |  |  | the Constitution of 1976 |  |  |  |  | nom ratification «communication 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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