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title: It takes the shape of a statue of an East Timorese warrior in tradit… — Dili · tree and pragmatics
description: It takes the shape of a statue of an East Timorese warrior in traditional dress breaking the chains round his wrists, deliberate chosen to associate traditional Timorese identity with Indonesian rule. Who acts: It, traditional dress. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dili» with its dependency tree and prag
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# Dili, sentence 293

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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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It takes the shape of a statue of an East Timorese warrior in traditional dress breaking the chains round his wrists, deliberate chosen to associate traditional Timorese identity with Indonesian rule.

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**Who acts:** It, traditional dress · **What happens:** take, break, choose, associate · **To what, where:** shape, chains, traditional Timorese identity

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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 (It, traditional dress), 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:293
# text = It takes the shape of a statue of an East Timorese warrior in traditional dress breaking the chains round his wrists, deliberate chosen to associate traditional Timorese identity with Indonesian rule.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Timorese	Timorese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	round	round	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	wrists	wrist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	deliberate	deliberate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
24	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	associate	associate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	Timorese	Timorese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	identity	identity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	Indonesian	indonesian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | It | the shape of a statue of a Timorese warrior in traditional dress |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme |
| 2 | **break** | gerund | traditional dress *not said here* | the chains |  |  |  | round territory's wrists | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chain=Patient |
| 3 | **choose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **associate** | to-infinitive |  | traditional Timorese identity |  |  |  | with Indonesian rule | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent identity=Patient with rule=Co-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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