--- title: An updated law in 2009 established the expected mandate of these pos… — Timor-Leste · tree and pragmatics description: An updated law in 2009 established the expected mandate of these positions, although it continued to leave them outside of the formal state system, reliant on municipal governments to provide formal administration and services. Who acts: updated law, law. 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An updated law in 2009 established the expected mandate of these positions, although it continued to leave them outside of the formal state system, reliant on municipal governments to provide formal administration and services. **Who acts:** updated law, law · **What happens:** update, establish, expect, continue, leave, provide · **To what, where:** expected mandate, positions, municipal governments, formal administration 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 (updated law, law), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:201 # text = An updated law in 2009 established the expected mandate of these positions, although it continued to leave them outside of the formal state system, reliant on municipal governments to provide formal administration and services. 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 updated update VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 3 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 2009 2009 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nmod _ _ 6 established establish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 expected expect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 9 mandate mandate NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 12 positions position NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 although although SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 outside outside ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 formal formal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 reliant reliant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 municipal municipal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 governments government NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 provide provide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 33 formal formal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 administration administration NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 services service NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **update** *speech: other* | participle | | | | | | | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **establish** | past | a updated law in 2009 | the expected mandate of this positions | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mandate=Patient | | 3 | **expect** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **continue** | past | law | | | | | | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **leave** | to-infinitive | law *not said here* | positions *= position* | | municipal governments | | outside the formal state system | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme outside system=Location | | 6 | **provide** | to-infinitive | law *not said here* | formal administration and services | | | | | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition administration=Theme | | 7 | **mandate** | | | this positions | | | | | nom mandate «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 200](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Timor-Leste/200/) - next →: [sentence 202](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Timor-Leste/202/) - ↑ back to [Timor-Leste](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Timor-Leste/)