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title: Portugal has a civil law system based on Roman law and on Canon Law… — Portugal · tree and pragmatics
description: Portugal has a civil law system based on Roman law and on Canon Law and influenced by German civil law. Who acts: Portugal. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Portugal» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Portugal, sentence 165

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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 a civil law system based on Roman law and on Canon Law and influenced by German civil law.

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**Who acts:** Portugal · **What happens:** have, base, influence · **To what, where:** civil law system, Roman law

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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:165
# text = Portugal has a civil law system based on Roman law and on Canon Law and influenced by German civil law.
1	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Canon	Canon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Law	Law	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	influenced	influence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Portugal | a civil law system |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent system=Patient |
| 2 | **base** | participle |  | a civil law system *not said here* |  | Roman law and Canon Law |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on law=Source |
| 3 | **influence** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by German civil law | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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