Timor-Leste, sentence 141
From Wikipedia, «Timor-Leste», 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 legislature is intended to provide a check on the executive; in practice the executive has maintained control of the legislature under all political parties, reflecting the dominance of individual leaders within political parties and coalitions.
What happens: intend, provide, maintain, reflect · To what, where: legislature, check, executive, dominance
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Timor-Leste». 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.
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 legislature | det |
| 2 | legislature | legislature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 intended | aux:pass |
| 4 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 provide | mark |
| 6 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 intended | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 check | det |
| 8 | check | check | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 provide | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 executive | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 executive | det |
| 11 | executive | executive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 provide | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 control | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 practice | case |
| 14 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 control | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 executive | det |
| 16 | executive | executive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 control | amod |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 maintained | aux |
| 18 | maintained | maintain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 control | amod |
| 19 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 intended | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 legislature | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 legislature | det |
| 22 | legislature | legislature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 control | nmod |
| 23 | under | under | ADP | _ | 26 parties | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 parties | det |
| 25 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 parties | amod |
| 26 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 legislature | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 reflecting | punct |
| 28 | reflecting | reflect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 control | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 dominance | det |
| 30 | dominance | dominance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 reflecting | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 leaders | case |
| 32 | individual | individual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 leaders | amod |
| 33 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 dominance | nmod |
| 34 | within | within | ADP | _ | 36 parties | case |
| 35 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 parties | amod |
| 36 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 control | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 coalitions | cc |
| 38 | coalitions | coalition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 parties | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 intended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intend | present · passive | the legislature | executive maintained control in practice of the legislature under all political parties within political parties and coalitions obl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | provide not said to happen | to-infinitive | a check | the executive | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition check=Theme | ||||
| 3 | maintain | present · perfect | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | reflect | gerund | the dominance of individual leaders | tree rules |
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