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title: Dili, East Timor: The Canberra Dili Friendship Agreement was signed… — Canberra · tree and pragmatics
description: Dili, East Timor: The Canberra Dili Friendship Agreement was signed in 2004, aiming to build friendship and mutual respect and promote educational, cultural, economic, humanitarian and sporting links between Canberra and Dili. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Canberra» with its dependency tree and pragmat
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# Canberra, sentence 435

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From Wikipedia, [«Canberra»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Dili, East Timor: The Canberra Dili Friendship Agreement was signed in 2004, aiming to build friendship and mutual respect and promote educational, cultural, economic, humanitarian and sporting links between Canberra and Dili.

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**What happens:** sign, aim, build, promote, sport · **To what, where:** Dili, 2004, friendship, links

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Canberra». 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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Canberra:435
# text = Dili, East Timor: The Canberra Dili Friendship Agreement was signed in 2004, aiming to build friendship and mutual respect and promote educational, cultural, economic, humanitarian and sporting links between Canberra and Dili.
1	Dili	Dili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	Timor	Timor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	Canberra	Canberra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
8	Dili	Dili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	Friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	signed	sign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	2004	2004	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	aiming	aim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	mutual	mutual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	promote	promote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
25	educational	educational	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	humanitarian	humanitarian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	sporting	sport	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
34	links	link	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
35	between	between	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Canberra	Canberra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	Dili	Dili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sign** | past · passive |  | Dili and East |  | 2004 |  | the Canberra Friendship Agreement *nsubj:pass* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme in 2004=Destination |
| 2 | **aim** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **build** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | friendship and mutual respect |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friendship=Product |
| 4 | **promote** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | educational *property* | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sport** | gerund |  | links |  |  |  | between Canberra and Dili | tree rules |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Canberra», 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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