Dili, sentence 113
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.
UDT control was limited outside of Dili, and on 20 August the opposing Fretilin party began its attempt to seize the city.
Who acts: opposing Fretilin party, control · What happens: limit, oppose, begin, seize, attempt · To what, where: UDT control, attempt, city
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 (opposing Fretilin party, control), 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 | UDT | UDT | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 control | compound |
| 2 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 limited | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 limited | aux:pass |
| 4 | limited | limit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 7 Dili | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Dili | case |
| 7 | Dili | Dili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 limited | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 began | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 began | cc |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 August | case |
| 11 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 August | nummod |
| 12 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 began | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 party | det |
| 14 | opposing | oppose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 party | amod |
| 15 | Fretilin | Fretilin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 party | compound |
| 16 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 began | nsubj |
| 17 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 limited | conj |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 attempt | nmod:poss |
| 19 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 began | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 seize | mark |
| 21 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 attempt | acl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 city | det |
| 23 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seize | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 limited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | limit | past · passive | UDT control | outside Dili | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | oppose | gerund | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | begin | past | the opposing Fretilin party | control's attempt | august | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | seize | to-infinitive | the opposing Fretilin party not said here | the city | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme | ||||
| 5 | attempt | control | nom attempt «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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