Dili, sentence 540
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.
Until recently, Dili's airport runway has been unable to accommodate aircraft larger than the Boeing 737 or C-130 Hercules, but in January 2008, the Portuguese charter airline EuroAtlantic Airways operated a direct flight from Lisbon using a Boeing 757, carrying 140 members of the Guarda Nacional Republicana.
Who acts: airport runway, airline EuroAtlantic Airways · What happens: be, accommodate, operate, use, carry · To what, where: aircraft, direct flight, Lisbon, Boeing, 140 members
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 (airport runway, airline EuroAtlantic Airways), 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 | Until | until | ADP | _ | 2 recently | case |
| 2 | recently | recently | ADV | _ | 10 unable | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 recently | punct |
| 4 | Dili | Dili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 runway | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Dili | case |
| 6 | airport | airport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 runway | compound |
| 7 | runway | runway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 unable | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 unable | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 unable | cop |
| 10 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 accommodate | mark |
| 12 | accommodate | accommodate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 unable | xcomp |
| 13 | aircraft | aircraft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 accommodate | obj |
| 14 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 aircraft | amod |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 Boeing | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Boeing | det |
| 17 | Boeing | Boeing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 larger | obl |
| 18 | 737 | 737 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 Boeing | flat |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 C | cc |
| 20 | C | C | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Boeing | conj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 130 | punct |
| 22 | 130 | 130 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 Hercules | nummod |
| 23 | Hercules | hercule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Boeing | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 operated | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 operated | cc |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 January | case |
| 27 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 operated | obl |
| 28 | 2008 | 2008 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 January | nmod:unmarked |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 airline | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 airline | det |
| 31 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 airline | amod |
| 32 | charter | charter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 airline | compound |
| 33 | airline | airline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Airways | compound |
| 34 | EuroAtlantic | EuroAtlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Airways | compound |
| 35 | Airways | airway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 operated | nsubj |
| 36 | operated | operate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 unable | conj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 flight | det |
| 38 | direct | direct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 flight | amod |
| 39 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 operated | obj |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 Lisbon | case |
| 41 | Lisbon | Lisbon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 flight | nmod |
| 42 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 operated | advcl |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 Boeing | det |
| 44 | Boeing | Boeing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 using | obj |
| 45 | 757 | 757 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 44 Boeing | flat |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 carrying | punct |
| 47 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 using | advcl |
| 48 | 140 | 140 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 49 members | nummod |
| 49 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 carrying | obj |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 Republicana | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 Republicana | det |
| 52 | Guarda | Guarda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 Nacional | compound |
| 53 | Nacional | Nacional | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 Republicana | compound |
| 54 | Republicana | Republicana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 members | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 unable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | Dili's airport runway | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | accommodate | to-infinitive | Dili's airport runway not said here | aircraft | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aircraft=Patient | ||||
| 3 | operate | past | airline EuroAtlantic Airways | a direct flight | Lisbon | january | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Theme flight=Attribute | ||
| 4 | use | gerund | airline EuroAtlantic Airways not said here | a Boeing | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boeing=Patient | ||||
| 5 | carry | gerund | airline EuroAtlantic Airways not said here | 140 members of the Nacional Republicana | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent member=Theme |
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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