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title: The first known inhabitants are those who arrived during the Austral… — Timor-Leste · tree and pragmatics
description: The first known inhabitants are those who arrived during the Australo-Melanesian migration through the region, likely bringing the precursors to today's Papuan languages. Who acts: first known inhabitants. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Timor-Leste» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Timor-Leste, sentence 27

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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 first known inhabitants are those who arrived during the Australo-Melanesian migration through the region, likely bringing the precursors to today's Papuan languages.

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**Who acts:** first known inhabitants · **What happens:** know, be, arrive, bring · **To what, where:** those, region, precursors, Papuan languages

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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 (first known inhabitants), 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:27
# text = The first known inhabitants are those who arrived during the Australo-Melanesian migration through the region, likely bringing the precursors to today's Papuan languages.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
3	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	during	during	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	Australo	Australo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Melanesian	Melanesian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	migration	migration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
20	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	xcomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	precursors	precursor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	Papuan	papuan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the first known inhabitants | those |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **arrive** | past |  |  |  | the region | during the Melanesian migration | who *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through region=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **bring** | gerund | the first known inhabitants *not said here* | the precursors |  | today's Papuan languages |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent precursor=Theme to language=Destination |

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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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