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title: Until recently, Dili's airport runway has been unable to accommodate… — Dili · tree and pragmatics
description: Until recently, Dili's airport runway has been unable to accommodate aircraft larger than the Boeing 737 or C-130 Hercules, but in January 2008, the Portuguese charter airline EuroAtlantic Airways operated a direct flight from Lisbon using a Boeing 757, carrying 140 members of the Guarda Nacional Re
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# Dili, sentence 540

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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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Until recently, Dili's airport runway has been unable to accommodate aircraft larger than the Boeing 737 or C-130 Hercules, but in January 2008, the Portuguese charter airline EuroAtlantic Airways operated a direct flight from Lisbon using a Boeing 757, carrying 140 members of the Guarda Nacional Republicana.

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**Who acts:** airport runway, airline EuroAtlantic Airways · **What happens:** be, accommodate, operate, use, carry · **To what, where:** aircraft, direct flight, Lisbon, Boeing, 140 members

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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 (airport runway, airline EuroAtlantic Airways), 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:540
# text = Until recently, Dili's airport runway has been unable to accommodate aircraft larger than the Boeing 737 or C-130 Hercules, but in January 2008, the Portuguese charter airline EuroAtlantic Airways operated a direct flight from Lisbon using a Boeing 757, carrying 140 members of the Guarda Nacional Republicana.
1	Until	until	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Dili	Dili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	airport	airport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	runway	runway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
10	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	accommodate	accommodate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	aircraft	aircraft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Boeing	Boeing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	737	737	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	C	C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	130	130	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	Hercules	hercule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
28	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	charter	charter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	airline	airline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	EuroAtlantic	EuroAtlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Airways	airway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	operated	operate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Lisbon	Lisbon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	Boeing	Boeing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	757	757	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	44	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	advcl	_	_
48	140	140	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	49	nummod	_	_
49	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
52	Guarda	Guarda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	Nacional	Nacional	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	Republicana	Republicana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · perfect | Dili's airport runway |  |  |  |  | unable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **accommodate** | to-infinitive | Dili's airport runway *not said here* | aircraft |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aircraft=Patient |
| 3 | **operate** | past | airline EuroAtlantic Airways | a direct flight |  | Lisbon | january |  | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Theme flight=Attribute |
| 4 | **use** | gerund | airline EuroAtlantic Airways *not said here* | a Boeing |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boeing=Patient |
| 5 | **carry** | gerund | airline EuroAtlantic Airways *not said here* | 140 members of the Nacional Republicana |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent member=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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