Dili, sentence 293

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.

It takes the shape of a statue of an East Timorese warrior in traditional dress breaking the chains round his wrists, deliberate chosen to associate traditional Timorese identity with Indonesian rule.

Who acts: It, traditional dress · What happens: take, break, choose, associate · To what, where: shape, chains, traditional Timorese identity

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 (It, traditional dress), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shape	det
4	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 takes	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 statue	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 statue	det
7	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shape	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 warrior	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 warrior	det
10	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Timorese	compound
11	Timorese	Timorese	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 warrior	compound
12	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 statue	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 dress	case
14	traditional	traditional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dress	amod
15	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 warrior	nmod
16	breaking	break	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 dress	acl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 chains	det
18	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 breaking	obj
19	round	round	ADP	_	21 wrists	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wrists	nmod:poss
21	wrists	wrist	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 breaking	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 deliberate	punct
23	deliberate	deliberate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 takes	parataxis
24	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 deliberate	acl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 associate	mark
26	associate	associate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 chosen	xcomp
27	traditional	traditional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 identity	amod
28	Timorese	Timorese	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 identity	compound
29	identity	identity	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 associate	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 rule	case
31	Indonesian	indonesian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 rule	amod
32	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 identity	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 takes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	present	It	the shape of a statue of a Timorese warrior in traditional dress		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme
2	break	gerund	traditional dress not said here	the chains	round territory's wrists	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chain=Patient
3	choose	participle				tree rules
4	associate	to-infinitive		traditional Timorese identity	with Indonesian rule	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent identity=Patient with rule=Co-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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Dili, sentence 293