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title: Despite the effects of net migration, due to low fertility rates, Po… — Portugal · tree and pragmatics
description: Despite the effects of net migration, due to low fertility rates, Portugal's population is projected to drop to 8.3 million by 2100. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Portugal» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Portugal, sentence 281

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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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Despite the effects of net migration, due to low fertility rates, Portugal's population is projected to drop to 8.3 million by 2100.

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**What happens:** project, drop, effect · **To what, where:** population, 8.3 million, net migration

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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: 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:281
# text = Despite the effects of net migration, due to low fertility rates, Portugal's population is projected to drop to 8.3 million by 2100.
1	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	net	net	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	migration	migration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	fertility	fertility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	rates	rate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	projected	project	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	8.3	8.3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	compound	_	_
23	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	2100	2100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **project** | present · passive |  | Portugal's population |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drop** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | 8.3 million |  | by 2100 | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent to million=Destination by 2100=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **effect** |  |  | net migration |  |  |  |  | nom effect «phenomenon 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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