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title: UDT control was limited outside of Dili, and on 20 August the opposi… — Dili · tree and pragmatics
description: UDT control was limited outside of Dili, and on 20 August the opposing Fretilin party began its attempt to seize the city. Who acts: opposing Fretilin party, control. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dili» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dili, sentence 113

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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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UDT control was limited outside of Dili, and on 20 August the opposing Fretilin party began its attempt to seize the city.

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**Who acts:** opposing Fretilin party, control · **What happens:** limit, oppose, begin, seize, attempt · **To what, where:** UDT control, attempt, city

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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 (opposing Fretilin party, control), 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:113
# text = UDT control was limited outside of Dili, and on 20 August the opposing Fretilin party began its attempt to seize the city.
1	UDT	UDT	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	limited	limit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Dili	Dili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	opposing	oppose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
15	Fretilin	Fretilin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **limit** | past · passive |  | UDT control |  |  |  | outside Dili | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **oppose** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the opposing Fretilin party | control's attempt |  |  | august |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Eventuality |
| 4 | **seize** | to-infinitive | the opposing Fretilin party *not said here* | the city |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme |
| 5 | **attempt** |  | control |  |  |  |  |  | nom attempt «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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