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title: The last Portuguese governor fled Dili for Atauro Island on 26 Augus… — Dili · tree and pragmatics
description: The last Portuguese governor fled Dili for Atauro Island on 26 August, as the civil war continued. Who acts: last Portuguese governor, civil war. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dili» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dili, sentence 115

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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 last Portuguese governor fled Dili for Atauro Island on 26 August, as the civil war continued.

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**Who acts:** last Portuguese governor, civil war · **What happens:** flee, continue · **To what, where:** Dili

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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 (last Portuguese governor, civil war), 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:115
# text = The last Portuguese governor fled Dili for Atauro Island on 26 August, as the civil war continued.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Dili	Dili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Atauro	Atauro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	26	26	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | past | the last Portuguese governor | Dili |  |  | august | for Atauro Island | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dili=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **continue** | past | the civil war |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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