Timor-Leste, sentence 201
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.
An updated law in 2009 established the expected mandate of these positions, although it continued to leave them outside of the formal state system, reliant on municipal governments to provide formal administration and services.
Who acts: updated law, law · What happens: update, establish, expect, continue, leave, provide · To what, where: expected mandate, positions, municipal governments, formal administration
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: who acts (updated law, law), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 law | det |
| 2 | updated | update | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 law | amod |
| 3 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 established | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 2009 | case |
| 5 | 2009 | 2009 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 law | nmod |
| 6 | established | establish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mandate | det |
| 8 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 mandate | amod |
| 9 | mandate | mandate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 established | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 positions | case |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 positions | det |
| 12 | positions | position | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 mandate | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 continued | punct |
| 14 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 16 continued | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 continued | nsubj |
| 16 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 established | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 leave | mark |
| 18 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 continued | xcomp |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 leave | obj |
| 20 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 25 system | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 system | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 system | det |
| 23 | formal | formal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 system | amod |
| 24 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 system | compound |
| 25 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leave | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 reliant | punct |
| 27 | reliant | reliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 system | amod |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 governments | case |
| 29 | municipal | municipal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 governments | amod |
| 30 | governments | government | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 leave | obl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 provide | mark |
| 32 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 leave | advcl |
| 33 | formal | formal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 administration | amod |
| 34 | administration | administration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 provide | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 services | cc |
| 36 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 administration | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 established | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | update speech: other | participle | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | establish | past | a updated law in 2009 | the expected mandate of this positions | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mandate=Patient | ||||
| 3 | expect | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | continue | past | law | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | leave | to-infinitive | law not said here | positions = position | municipal governments | outside the formal state system | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme outside system=Location | ||
| 6 | provide | to-infinitive | law not said here | formal administration and services | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition administration=Theme | ||||
| 7 | mandate | this positions | nom mandate «communication 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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Timor-Leste», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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