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title: To the east of the central government area is the old Chinese area,… — Dili · tree and pragmatics
description: To the east of the central government area is the old Chinese area, which still retains a number of Chinese-influenced buildings. Who acts: old Chinese area. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dili» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dili, sentence 276

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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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To the east of the central government area is the old Chinese area, which still retains a number of Chinese-influenced buildings.

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**Who acts:** old Chinese area · **What happens:** be, retain, influence · **To what, where:** old Chinese area, number

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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 (old Chinese area), 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:276
# text = To the east of the central government area is the old Chinese area, which still retains a number of Chinese-influenced buildings.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	retains	retain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	influenced	influence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the old Chinese area |  |  |  | to the east of the central government area | tree rules |
| 2 | **retain** | present | the old Chinese area | a number of influenced buildings |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **influence** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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