Syntactic information is crucial in SPADE<cite> (Soricut and Marcu, 2003)</cite> and for Portuguese the parser most similar to that used by Soricut and Marcu is the LX-parser (Stanford parser trained to Portuguese (Silva et al., 2010) ). After the parsing of the text by the syntactic parser, the same lexicalization procedure (Magerman, 1995) was applied and adapted according to the tagset used by LX-parser.