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title: In 1641, a number of kings in Timor converted to Catholicism while s… — Dili · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1641, a number of kings in Timor converted to Catholicism while seeking Portuguese protection. Who acts: number. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dili» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dili, sentence 36

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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 1641, a number of kings in Timor converted to Catholicism while seeking Portuguese protection.

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**Who acts:** number · **What happens:** convert, seek · **To what, where:** Catholicism, 1641, Portuguese protection

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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 (number), 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:36
# text = In 1641, a number of kings in Timor converted to Catholicism while seeking Portuguese protection.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1641	1641	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Timor	Timor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	converted	convert	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Catholicism	Catholicism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **convert** | past | a number of kings in Timor |  | Catholicism | 1641 |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to catholicism=Result |
| 2 | **seek** | gerund | a number of kings in Timor *not said here* | Portuguese protection |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protection=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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