Dili, sentence 121
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.
Despite Indonesian attempts to restrict rural-urban migration, the population of Dili continued to grow, reaching 80,000 people in 1985, and over 100,000 in 1999, and economic growth for the territory remained centred in Dili.
Who acts: Indonesian attempts, population · What happens: restrict, continue, grow, reach, centre · To what, where: rural urban migration, 80,000 people, 1985, 100,000, Dili
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 (Indonesian attempts, 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 | Despite | despite | ADP | _ | 5 restrict | mark |
| 2 | Indonesian | indonesian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 attempts | amod |
| 3 | attempts | attempt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 restrict | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 restrict | mark |
| 5 | restrict | restrict | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 continued | advcl |
| 6 | rural | rural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 migration | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 migration | punct |
| 8 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 migration | amod |
| 9 | migration | migration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 restrict | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 restrict | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 population | det |
| 12 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 continued | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Dili | case |
| 14 | Dili | Dili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 population | nmod |
| 15 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 grow | mark |
| 17 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 continued | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 reaching | punct |
| 19 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 grow | advcl |
| 20 | 80,000 | 80000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 people | nummod |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 reaching | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 1985 | case |
| 23 | 1985 | 1985 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 reaching | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 centred | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 centred | cc |
| 26 | over | over | ADV | _ | 27 100,000 | advmod |
| 27 | 100,000 | 100000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 38 centred | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 1999 | case |
| 29 | 1999 | 1999 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 100,000 | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 growth | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 growth | cc |
| 32 | economic | economic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 growth | amod |
| 33 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 100,000 | conj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 territory | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 territory | det |
| 36 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 growth | nmod |
| 37 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 centred | aux:pass |
| 38 | centred | centre | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 continued | conj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 Dili | case |
| 40 | Dili | Dili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 centred | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | restrict | to-infinitive | Indonesian attempts | rural urban migration | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer migration=Patient | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | the population of Dili | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | grow | to-infinitive | the population of Dili not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | reach | gerund | the population of Dili not said here | 80,000 people | 1985 | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent people=Theme | |||
| 5 | centre | past · passive | 100,000 in 1999 and economic growth for the territory | Dili | tree rules |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Dili», 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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