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title: The tumultuous history of the city has resulted in a great deal of i… — Dili · tree and pragmatics
description: The tumultuous history of the city has resulted in a great deal of information being lost; archives in the city were destroyed in 1779, 1890, 1975, and 1999. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dili» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dili, sentence 28

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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 tumultuous history of the city has resulted in a great deal of information being lost; archives in the city were destroyed in 1779, 1890, 1975, and 1999.

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**What happens:** result, lose, destroy, deal · **To what, where:** tumultuous history, great deal, information, archives, 1779

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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: 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:28
# text = The tumultuous history of the city has resulted in a great deal of information being lost; archives in the city were destroyed in 1779, 1890, 1975, and 1999.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tumultuous	tumultuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	resulted	result	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	archives	archive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	1779	1779	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	1890	1890	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	1975	1975	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	1999	1999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **result** | present · perfect · passive |  | the tumultuous history of the city |  | a great deal of information |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | gerund · passive |  | information *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **destroy** | past · passive |  | archives in the city |  | 1779 |  | 1999 *parataxis* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **deal** |  |  | information |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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