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title: While there were minor incidents in the build-up to the mid-year pre… — Timor-Leste · tree and pragmatics
description: While there were minor incidents in the build-up to the mid-year presidential elections, the process was peaceful overall and José Ramos-Horta was elected president. Who acts: process. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Timor-Leste» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Timor-Leste, sentence 89

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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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While there were minor incidents in the build-up to the mid-year presidential elections, the process was peaceful overall and José Ramos-Horta was elected president.

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**Who acts:** process · **What happens:** be, elect · **To what, where:** José

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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 (process), 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:89
# text = While there were minor incidents in the build-up to the mid-year presidential elections, the process was peaceful overall and José Ramos-Horta was elected president.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
4	minor	minor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	build	build	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	mid-year	mid-year	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	presidential	presidential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	process	process	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	_
21	overall	overall	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	José	José	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	Ramos	Ramos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Horta	Horta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	parataxis	_	_
29	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to the mid-year presidential elections | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the process |  |  |  |  | overall, peaceful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **elect** | past · passive |  | José and Horta |  |  |  | president *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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