Dili, sentence 276
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.
To the east of the central government area is the old Chinese area, which still retains a number of Chinese-influenced buildings.
Who acts: old Chinese area · What happens: be, retain, influence · To what, where: old Chinese area, number
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 (old Chinese area), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 east | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 east | det |
| 3 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 area | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 area | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 area | det |
| 6 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 area | amod |
| 7 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 area | compound |
| 8 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 east | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 area | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 area | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 area | amod |
| 12 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 area | amod |
| 13 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 retains | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 retains | nsubj |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 retains | advmod |
| 17 | retains | retain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 area | acl:relcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 number | det |
| 19 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 retains | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 buildings | case |
| 21 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 influenced | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Chinese | punct |
| 23 | influenced | influence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 buildings | amod |
| 24 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 number | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 area | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the old Chinese area | to the east of the central government area | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | retain | present | the old Chinese area | a number of influenced buildings | still | tree rules | |||
| 3 | influence | participle | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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