Timor-Leste, sentence 74
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 1991 massacre of more than 200 demonstrators by the Indonesian military was a turning point for the independence cause, and brought increased international pressure on Indonesia.
Who acts: 1991 massacre · What happens: be, bring, increase, massacre · To what, where: turning point, increased international pressure, Indonesia, 200 demonstrators
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 (1991 massacre), 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 | 3 massacre | det |
| 2 | 1991 | 1991 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 massacre | nummod |
| 3 | massacre | massacre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 point | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 demonstrators | case |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 7 200 | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 more | fixed |
| 7 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 demonstrators | nummod |
| 8 | demonstrators | demonstrator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 massacre | nmod |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 military | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 military | det |
| 11 | Indonesian | indonesian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 military | amod |
| 12 | military | military | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 demonstrators | nmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 point | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 point | det |
| 15 | turning | turning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 point | compound |
| 16 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 cause | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cause | det |
| 19 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cause | compound |
| 20 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 point | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 brought | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 brought | cc |
| 23 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 point | conj |
| 24 | increased | increase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 pressure | amod |
| 25 | international | international | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 pressure | amod |
| 26 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 brought | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 Indonesia | case |
| 28 | Indonesia | Indonesia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 brought | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 point | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the 1991 massacre of 200 demonstrators by the Indonesian military | a turning point | for the independence cause | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bring | past | the 1991 massacre of 200 demonstrators by the Indonesian military not said here | increased international pressure | Indonesia | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pressure=Theme on indonesia=Destination | |||
| 3 | increase | participle | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | massacre | 200 demonstrators by the Indonesian military | nom massacre «act 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.
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