Dili, sentence 28
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 tumultuous history of the city has resulted in a great deal of information being lost; archives in the city were destroyed in 1779, 1890, 1975, and 1999.
What happens: result, lose, destroy, deal · To what, where: tumultuous history, great deal, information, archives, 1779
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 history | det |
| 2 | tumultuous | tumultuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 history | amod |
| 3 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 resulted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 history | nmod |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 resulted | aux |
| 8 | resulted | result | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 deal | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 deal | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 deal | amod |
| 12 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 resulted | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 information | case |
| 14 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 deal | nmod |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 lost | aux:pass |
| 16 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 information | acl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 destroyed | punct |
| 18 | archives | archive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 destroyed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 city | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 city | det |
| 21 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 archives | nmod |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 23 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 resulted | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 1779 | case |
| 25 | 1779 | 1779 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 destroyed | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 1890 | punct |
| 27 | 1890 | 1890 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 1779 | flat |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 1975 | punct |
| 29 | 1975 | 1975 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 1779 | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 1999 | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 1999 | cc |
| 32 | 1999 | 1999 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 destroyed | parataxis |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 resulted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | result | present · perfect · passive | the tumultuous history of the city | a great deal of information | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lose | gerund · passive | information not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | destroy | past · passive | archives in the city | 1779 | 1999 parataxis | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 4 | deal | information | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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