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title: Despite the nationalist political leadership promoting closer ties w… — Timor-Leste · tree and pragmatics
description: Despite the nationalist political leadership promoting closer ties with Melanesian states, the country has targeted ASEAN membership since before its independence, with its leaders stating that joining Pacific bodies would have precluded ASEAN membership. Who acts: nationalist political leadership, 
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# Timor-Leste, sentence 209

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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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Despite the nationalist political leadership promoting closer ties with Melanesian states, the country has targeted ASEAN membership since before its independence, with its leaders stating that joining Pacific bodies would have precluded ASEAN membership.

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**Who acts:** nationalist political leadership, leaders · **What happens:** promote, target, state, join, preclude · **To what, where:** closer ties, country, joining Pacific bodies · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (nationalist political leadership, leaders), 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:209
# text = Despite the nationalist political leadership promoting closer ties with Melanesian states, the country has targeted ASEAN membership since before its independence, with its leaders stating that joining Pacific bodies would have precluded ASEAN membership.
1	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	nationalist	nationalist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	leadership	leadership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
6	promoting	promote	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	ties	tie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Melanesian	Melanesian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	targeted	target	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	ASEAN	asean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	membership	membership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	since	since	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:agent	_	_
27	stating	state	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
29	joining	join	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	amod	_	_
30	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux	_	_
34	precluded	preclude	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	ccomp	_	_
35	ASEAN	asean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	membership	membership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promote** | gerund | the nationalist political leadership *not said here* | closer ties |  |  |  | with Melanesian states | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tie=Theme |
| 2 | **target** | present · perfect · passive | country's leaders | the country |  |  | before country's independence | despite the nationalist political leadership; ASEAN membership *obj*; since *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **state** *speech: other* | gerund | country's leaders *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **join** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **preclude** | would · perfect · passive |  | joining Pacific bodies |  |  |  | ASEAN membership *obj* | 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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