Dili, sentence 104
From Wikipedia, «Dili», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The city did not extend far beyond the area surrounding the port, and the population did not exceed 30,000 before 1975.
Who acts: city, area, population · What happens: not extend, surround, not exceed · To what, where: port, 30,000
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dili». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, area, population), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 extend | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 extend | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 extend | advmod |
| 5 | extend | extend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 extend | advmod |
| 7 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 9 area | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 area | det |
| 9 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 far | obl |
| 10 | surrounding | surround | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 area | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 port | det |
| 12 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 surrounding | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 exceed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 exceed | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 population | det |
| 16 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 exceed | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 exceed | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 exceed | advmod |
| 19 | exceed | exceed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 extend | conj |
| 20 | 30,000 | 30,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 exceed | obj |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 1975 | case |
| 22 | 1975 | 1975 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 exceed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 extend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not extend | past · do-support | the city | far property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | surround | gerund | the area not said here | the port | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme port=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | not exceed | past · do-support | the population | 30,000 | before 1975 | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot 30,000=Theme |
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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