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title: While the temperature is thought to have experienced a small increas… — Timor-Leste · tree and pragmatics
description: While the temperature is thought to have experienced a small increase due to climate change, there has been little change in annual rainfall. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Timor-Leste» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Timor-Leste, sentence 125

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From Wikipedia, [«Timor-Leste»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timor-Leste), 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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While the temperature is thought to have experienced a small increase due to climate change, there has been little change in annual rainfall.

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**What happens:** think, experience, be · **To what, where:** temperature, small increase, little change, annual rainfall

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Timor-Leste». 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:Timor-Leste:125
# text = While the temperature is thought to have experienced a small increase due to climate change, there has been little change in annual rainfall.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
8	experienced	experience	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	xcomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	increase	increase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
18	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	rainfall	rainfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | the temperature |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **experience** | to-infinitive · perfect |  | a small increase |  |  |  | due climate change | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer increase=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | participle |  | little change |  | annual rainfall |  |  | tree rules |

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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, «Timor-Leste», 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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