Libya, sentence 16
From Wikipedia, «Libya», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The Italian population then went into decline and Libya became independent as a kingdom in 1951.
Who acts: Italian population, Libya · What happens: go, become · To what, where: decline, kingdom, 1951
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Libya». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Italian population, Libya), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 population | det |
| 2 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 population | amod |
| 3 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 went | advmod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 decline | case |
| 7 | decline | decline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 became | cc |
| 9 | Libya | Libya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 became | nsubj |
| 10 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 11 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 became | xcomp |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 kingdom | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 kingdom | det |
| 14 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 became | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 1951 | case |
| 16 | 1951 | 1951 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 became | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Italian population | decline | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into decline=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | become | past | Libya | a kingdom | in 1951 result; independent property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1951=Result |
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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