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title: Effective European occupation in the east of the island only began i… — Timor-Leste · tree and pragmatics
description: Effective European occupation in the east of the island only began in 1769, when the city of Dili was founded, although actual control remained highly limited. Who acts: Effective European occupation, actual control. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Timor-Leste» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Timor-Leste, sentence 47

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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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Effective European occupation in the east of the island only began in 1769, when the city of Dili was founded, although actual control remained highly limited.

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**Who acts:** Effective European occupation, actual control · **What happens:** begin, found, remain · **To what, where:** 1769, city

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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 (Effective European occupation, actual control), 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:47
# text = Effective European occupation in the east of the island only began in 1769, when the city of Dili was founded, although actual control remained highly limited.
1	Effective	effective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	occupation	occupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1769	1769	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Dili	Dili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	actual	actual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
27	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	limited	limited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Effective European occupation in the east of the island |  |  | 1769 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **found** | past · passive |  | the city of Dili |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **remain** | past | actual control |  |  |  |  | limited *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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