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title: Until 1999, military service was compulsory for men at age 18 becomi… — Portugal · tree and pragmatics
description: Until 1999, military service was compulsory for men at age 18 becoming officially suspended during peace time and replaced by one mandatory day of sensibilisation about the Armed Forces called Dia da Defesa Nacional (National Defence Day). Who acts: military service. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Portu
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# Portugal, sentence 212

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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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Until 1999, military service was compulsory for men at age 18 becoming officially suspended during peace time and replaced by one mandatory day of sensibilisation about the Armed Forces called Dia da Defesa Nacional (National Defence Day).

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**Who acts:** military service · **What happens:** be, become, suspend, replace, call · **To what, where:** age, Armed Forces · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (military service), 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:212
# text = Until 1999, military service was compulsory for men at age 18 becoming officially suspended during peace time and replaced by one mandatory day of sensibilisation about the Armed Forces called Dia da Defesa Nacional (National Defence Day).
1	Until	until	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1999	1999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	compulsory	compulsory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	_
13	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	suspended	suspend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
16	during	during	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	replaced	replace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	mandatory	mandatory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	sensibilisation	sensibilisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	about	about	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
31	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
32	Dia	Dia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	da	Da	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Defesa	Defesa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	xcomp	_	_
35	Nacional	Nacional	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	_
36	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	Defence	Defence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | military service |  |  |  | at age; until 1999 | for men; compulsory *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **suspend** | participle · passive |  |  |  |  | time | officially *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **replace** | participle |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **call** | participle |  | the Armed Forces *not said here* |  |  |  | Dia da Defesa *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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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