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title: Dili is the administrative centre of the Dili Municipality, serving… — Dili · tree and pragmatics
description: Dili is the administrative centre of the Dili Municipality, serving as both the municipal and national capital. Who acts: Dili, administrative centre. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dili» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dili, sentence 299

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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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Dili is the administrative centre of the Dili Municipality, serving as both the municipal and national capital.

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**Who acts:** Dili, administrative centre · **What happens:** be, serve · **To what, where:** administrative centre

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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 (Dili, administrative centre), 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:299
# text = Dili is the administrative centre of the Dili Municipality, serving as both the municipal and national capital.
1	Dili	Dili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Dili	Dili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	Municipality	Municipality	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	serving	serve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc:preconj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	municipal	municipal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Dili | the administrative centre |  |  |  | of the Dili | tree rules |
| 2 | **serve** | gerund | the administrative centre *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the municipal and national capital | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as municipal=Attribute |

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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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