Natural Language Processing is a research field that explores how computers can understand and manipulate natural language texts. Sequence tagging is amongst the most well-known tasks in NLP. Text Chunking is one of the problems that can be approached as a sequence tagging problem. Thus, we classify which words belong to a chunk, where each chunk represents a disjoint group of syntactically correlated words. This type of chunking has important applications in more complex tasks of natural language processing, such as dependency parsing, machine translation, semantic role labeling, clause identification and much more. The goal of this work is to present a deep neural network archtecture for the Portuguese text chunking problem. The corpus used in the experiments is the Bosque, from the Floresta Sintá(c)tica project. Based on recent work in the field, our approach surpass the state-of-the-art for Portuguese by achieving a F(beta)=1 of 90.51, which corresponds to an increase of 2.56 in comparison with the previous work. In addition, in order to attest the chunker effectiveness we use the tags obtained by our system as feature for the depedency parsing task. These features improved the accuracy of the parser by 0.87.