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title: Electricity cost four times as much as it did in Indonesia, averagin… — Dili · tree and pragmatics
description: Electricity cost four times as much as it did in Indonesia, averaging $15 per household. Who acts: Electricity. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dili» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dili, sentence 168

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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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Electricity cost four times as much as it did in Indonesia, averaging $15 per household.

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**Who acts:** Electricity · **What happens:** cost, do, average · **To what, where:** much, Indonesia

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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 (Electricity), 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:168
# text = Electricity cost four times as much as it did in Indonesia, averaging $15 per household.
1	Electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cost	cost	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obj	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Indonesia	Indonesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	averaging	average	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
14	$	$	SYM	$	_	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
16	per	per	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cost** | present | Electricity | much |  |  | time |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value |
| 2 | **do** | past | electricity |  |  | Indonesia |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **average** | gerund | Electricity *not said here* |  |  |  |  | per household | vn multiply-108-3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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