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title: A lack of runway lighting prevents night-time landings, so the airpo… — Dili · tree and pragmatics
description: A lack of runway lighting prevents night-time landings, so the airport operates from 6 am to 6 pm. Who acts: lack, airport. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dili» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dili, sentence 533

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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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A lack of runway lighting prevents night-time landings, so the airport operates from 6 am to 6 pm.

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**Who acts:** lack, airport · **What happens:** prevent, operate, lack · **To what, where:** time landings, 6, runway lighting

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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 (lack, airport), 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:533
# text = A lack of runway lighting prevents night-time landings, so the airport operates from 6 am to 6 pm.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	runway	runway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	lighting	lighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	prevents	prevent	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	landings	landing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	airport	airport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	operates	operate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
18	am	a.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:unmarked	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	_
21	pm	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prevent** | present | a lack of runway lighting | time landings |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer landing=Theme |
| 2 | **operate** | present | the airport |  |  | 6  am to 6  pm |  |  | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lack** |  |  | runway lighting |  |  |  |  | nom lack «state transitive»: of=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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