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title: The legislature is intended to provide a check on the executive; in… — Timor-Leste · tree and pragmatics
description: The legislature is intended to provide a check on the executive; in practice the executive has maintained control of the legislature under all political parties, reflecting the dominance of individual leaders within political parties and coalitions. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Timor-Leste» with its d
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# Timor-Leste, sentence 141

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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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The legislature is intended to provide a check on the executive; in practice the executive has maintained control of the legislature under all political parties, reflecting the dominance of individual leaders within political parties and coalitions.

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**What happens:** intend, provide, maintain, reflect · **To what, where:** legislature, check, executive, dominance

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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:141
# text = The legislature is intended to provide a check on the executive; in practice the executive has maintained control of the legislature under all political parties, reflecting the dominance of individual leaders within political parties and coalitions.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	legislature	legislature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	executive	executive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	executive	executive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	maintained	maintain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	legislature	legislature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	under	under	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
25	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	reflecting	reflect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	dominance	dominance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	individual	individual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
34	within	within	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	coalitions	coalition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **intend** | present · passive |  | the legislature |  |  |  | executive maintained control in practice of the legislature under all political parties within political parties and coalitions *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **provide** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | a check |  | the executive |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition check=Theme |
| 3 | **maintain** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **reflect** | gerund |  | the dominance of individual leaders |  |  |  |  | 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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