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title: On 11 August 1975, the UDT initiated a coup. — Dili · tree and pragmatics
description: On 11 August 1975, the UDT initiated a coup. Who acts: UDT. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dili» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dili, sentence 112

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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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On 11 August 1975, the UDT initiated a coup.

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**Who acts:** UDT · **What happens:** initiate · **To what, where:** coup, 11

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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 (UDT), 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:112
# text = On 11 August 1975, the UDT initiated a coup.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
3	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	1975	1975	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	UDT	UDT	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	initiated	initiate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	coup	coup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **initiate** | past | the UDT | a coup |  | 11 |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coup=Patient |

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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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