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title: Portuguese and Spanish interest in the island increased in the 1520s… — Dili · tree and pragmatics
description: Portuguese and Spanish interest in the island increased in the 1520s, with regular trade established by 1524. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dili» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dili, sentence 32

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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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Portuguese and Spanish interest in the island increased in the 1520s, with regular trade established by 1524.

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**What happens:** increase, establish · **To what, where:** island, 1520s, regular trade, Portuguese interest

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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:32
# text = Portuguese and Spanish interest in the island increased in the 1520s, with regular trade established by 1524.
1	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	1520s	1520	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1524	1524	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **increase** | participle |  | the island *not said here* |  | the 1520s |  | with regular trade | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **establish** | participle |  | regular trade *not said here* |  |  |  | by 1524 | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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