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title: However, as they are directly elected, past presidents have wielded… — Timor-Leste · tree and pragmatics
description: However, as they are directly elected, past presidents have wielded great informal power and influence. Who acts: elected past presidents. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Timor-Leste» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Timor-Leste, sentence 150

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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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However, as they are directly elected, past presidents have wielded great informal power and influence.

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**Who acts:** elected past presidents · **What happens:** elect, wield · **To what, where:** appointment, great informal power

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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: who acts (elected past presidents), 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:150
# text = However, as they are directly elected, past presidents have wielded great informal power and influence.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	presidents	president	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	wielded	wield	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	informal	informal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **elect** | present · passive |  | appointment |  |  |  | directly *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **wield** | present · perfect | elected past presidents | great informal power and influence |  |  |  | however *property* | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=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, «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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