Timor-Leste, sentence 27
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 first known inhabitants are those who arrived during the Australo-Melanesian migration through the region, likely bringing the precursors to today's Papuan languages.
Who acts: first known inhabitants · What happens: know, be, arrive, bring · To what, where: those, region, precursors, Papuan languages
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 (first known inhabitants), 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 | 4 inhabitants | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 inhabitants | amod |
| 3 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 inhabitants | amod |
| 4 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 those | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 those | cop |
| 6 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 arrived | nsubj |
| 8 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 those | acl:relcl |
| 9 | during | during | ADP | _ | 14 migration | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 migration | det |
| 11 | Australo | Australo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Melanesian | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Australo | punct |
| 13 | Melanesian | Melanesian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 migration | compound |
| 14 | migration | migration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arrived | obl |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 region | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 region | det |
| 17 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arrived | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 likely | punct |
| 19 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 those | amod |
| 20 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 likely | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 precursors | det |
| 22 | precursors | precursor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bringing | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 languages | case |
| 24 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 languages | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 today | case |
| 26 | Papuan | papuan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 languages | amod |
| 27 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bringing | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 those | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | the first known inhabitants | those | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | arrive | past | the region | during the Melanesian migration | who nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through region=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | bring | gerund | the first known inhabitants not said here | the precursors | today's Papuan languages | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent precursor=Theme to language=Destination |
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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