Timor-Leste, sentence 209
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.
Despite the nationalist political leadership promoting closer ties with Melanesian states, the country has targeted ASEAN membership since before its independence, with its leaders stating that joining Pacific bodies would have precluded ASEAN membership.
Who acts: nationalist political leadership, leaders · What happens: promote, target, state, join, preclude · To what, where: closer ties, country, joining Pacific bodies · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (nationalist political leadership, leaders), 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 | Despite | despite | ADP | _ | 5 leadership | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 leadership | det |
| 3 | nationalist | nationalist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 leadership | amod |
| 4 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 leadership | amod |
| 5 | leadership | leadership | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 targeted | obl |
| 6 | promoting | promote | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 leadership | acl |
| 7 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 ties | amod |
| 8 | ties | tie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 promoting | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 states | case |
| 10 | Melanesian | Melanesian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 states | compound |
| 11 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 promoting | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 leadership | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 country | det |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 targeted | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 targeted | aux |
| 16 | targeted | target | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | ASEAN | asean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 membership | amod |
| 18 | membership | membership | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 targeted | obj |
| 19 | since | since | ADV | _ | 16 targeted | advmod |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 independence | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 independence | nmod:poss |
| 22 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 targeted | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 leaders | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 leaders | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 leaders | nmod:poss |
| 26 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 targeted | obl:agent |
| 27 | stating | state | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 leaders | acl |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 precluded | mark |
| 29 | joining | join | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 bodies | amod |
| 30 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 bodies | compound |
| 31 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 precluded | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 precluded | aux |
| 33 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 precluded | aux |
| 34 | precluded | preclude | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 stating | ccomp |
| 35 | ASEAN | asean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 membership | amod |
| 36 | membership | membership | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 precluded | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 targeted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promote | gerund | the nationalist political leadership not said here | closer ties | with Melanesian states | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tie=Theme | |||
| 2 | target | present · perfect · passive | country's leaders | the country | before country's independence | despite the nationalist political leadership; ASEAN membership obj; since property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | state speech: other | gerund | country's leaders not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | join | gerund | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | preclude | would · perfect · passive | joining Pacific bodies | ASEAN membership obj | tree rules |
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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