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title: Despite Indonesian attempts to restrict rural-urban migration, the p… — Dili · tree and pragmatics
description: Despite Indonesian attempts to restrict rural-urban migration, the population of Dili continued to grow, reaching 80,000 people in 1985, and over 100,000 in 1999, and economic growth for the territory remained centred in Dili. Who acts: Indonesian attempts, population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dil
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# Dili, sentence 121

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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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Despite Indonesian attempts to restrict rural-urban migration, the population of Dili continued to grow, reaching 80,000 people in 1985, and over 100,000 in 1999, and economic growth for the territory remained centred in Dili.

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**Who acts:** Indonesian attempts, population · **What happens:** restrict, continue, grow, reach, centre · **To what, where:** rural urban migration, 80,000 people, 1985, 100,000, 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 (Indonesian attempts, 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:121
# text = Despite Indonesian attempts to restrict rural-urban migration, the population of Dili continued to grow, reaching 80,000 people in 1985, and over 100,000 in 1999, and economic growth for the territory remained centred in Dili.
1	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	Indonesian	indonesian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	attempts	attempt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	restrict	restrict	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
6	rural	rural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	migration	migration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Dili	Dili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	80,000	80000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	1985	1985	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
26	over	over	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	100,000	100000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	1999	1999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	centred	centre	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Dili	Dili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **restrict** | to-infinitive | Indonesian attempts | rural urban migration |  |  |  |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer migration=Patient |
| 2 | **continue** | past | the population of Dili |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **grow** | to-infinitive | the population of Dili *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **reach** | gerund | the population of Dili *not said here* | 80,000 people |  | 1985 |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 5 | **centre** | past · passive |  | 100,000 in 1999 and economic growth for the territory |  | 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, «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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