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title: In 2003 the national government legislated that all previous state p… — Dili · tree and pragmatics
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# Dili, sentence 319

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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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In 2003 the national government legislated that all previous state property, as well as abandoned properties, belonged to the state.

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**What happens:** legislate, abandon, belong · **To what, where:** national government, abandoned properties, 2003

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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:319
# text = In 2003 the national government legislated that all previous state property, as well as abandoned properties, belonged to the state.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2003	2003	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	legislated	legislate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
9	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	16	cc	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	fixed	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
16	abandoned	abandon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	properties	property	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	belonged	belong	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **legislate** | participle |  | the national government *not said here* |  |  |  | all previous state property and abandoned properties *advcl* | vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **abandon** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **belong** | participle |  | abandoned properties *not said here* |  |  |  | to the state | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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