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title: Portugal's court system is organised into judicial, administrative,… — Portugal · tree and pragmatics
description: Portugal's court system is organised into judicial, administrative, and fiscal branches with three levels of jurisdiction and separate courts of last appeal, while the Constitutional Court is responsible for constitutional review and oversight of elections, referendums and political parties. Who act
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# Portugal, sentence 168

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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's court system is organised into judicial, administrative, and fiscal branches with three levels of jurisdiction and separate courts of last appeal, while the Constitutional Court is responsible for constitutional review and oversight of elections, referendums and political parties.

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**Who acts:** Constitutional Court · **What happens:** organise, be · **To what, where:** court system, judicial

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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 (Constitutional Court), 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:168
# text = Portugal's court system is organised into judicial, administrative, and fiscal branches with three levels of jurisdiction and separate courts of last appeal, while the Constitutional Court is responsible for constitutional review and oversight of elections, referendums and political parties.
1	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	organised	organise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	judicial	judicial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	fiscal	fiscal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	levels	level	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	jurisdiction	jurisdiction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	separate	separate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	appeal	appeal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Constitutional	constitutional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	responsible	responsible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	constitutional	constitutional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	review	review	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	oversight	oversight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	referendums	referendum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **organise** | present · passive |  | Portugal's court system |  | judicial |  | fiscal branches with three levels of jurisdiction and separate courts of last appeal *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the Constitutional Court |  |  |  |  | for constitutional review and oversight of elections and referendums and political parties; responsible *property* | tree rules |

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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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