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title: The fertility rate, which at the time of independence was the highes… — Timor-Leste · tree and pragmatics
description: The fertility rate, which at the time of independence was the highest in the world at 7.8, dropped to 4.2 by 2016. Who acts: fertility rate. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Timor-Leste» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Timor-Leste, sentence 298

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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 fertility rate, which at the time of independence was the highest in the world at 7.8, dropped to 4.2 by 2016.

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**Who acts:** fertility rate · **What happens:** be, drop · **To what, where:** world, 4.2

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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 (fertility rate), 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:298
# text = The fertility rate, which at the time of independence was the highest in the world at 7.8, dropped to 4.2 by 2016.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fertility	fertility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	7.8	7.8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
20	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	4.2	4.2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the fertility rate |  |  | the world | time | at 7.8; high *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **drop** | past | the fertility rate |  |  | 4.2 |  | by 2016 | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent to 4.2=Destination by 2016=Initial\_Location |

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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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