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title: The city did not extend far beyond the area surrounding the port, an… — Dili · tree and pragmatics
description: The city did not extend far beyond the area surrounding the port, and the population did not exceed 30,000 before 1975. Who acts: city, area, population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dili» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dili, sentence 104

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From Wikipedia, [«Dili»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dili), 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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The city did not extend far beyond the area surrounding the port, and the population did not exceed 30,000 before 1975.

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**Who acts:** city, area, population · **What happens:** not extend, surround, not exceed · **To what, where:** port, 30,000

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dili». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, area, population), 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:Dili:104
# text = The city did not extend far beyond the area surrounding the port, and the population did not exceed 30,000 before 1975.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	extend	extend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
7	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	surrounding	surround	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	exceed	exceed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
20	30,000	30,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obj	_	_
21	before	before	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	1975	1975	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **extend** | past · do-support | the city |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **surround** | gerund | the area *not said here* | the port |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme port=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **not** **exceed** | past · do-support | the population | 30,000 |  |  | before 1975 |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot 30,000=Theme |

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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, «Dili», 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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