Libya, sentence 429
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.
Libya had long been a notoriously difficult country for Western tourists to visit due to stringent visa requirements.
Who acts: Libya · What happens: have, be, visit · To what, where: difficult country
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 (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 | Libya | Libya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 country | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 country | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 country | det |
| 6 | notoriously | notoriously | ADV | _ | 7 difficult | advmod |
| 7 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 country | amod |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 tourists | case |
| 10 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tourists | amod |
| 11 | tourists | tourist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 visit | mark |
| 13 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | advcl |
| 14 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 18 requirements | case |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 due | fixed |
| 16 | stringent | stringent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 requirements | amod |
| 17 | visa | visa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 requirements | compound |
| 18 | requirements | requirement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 visit | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Libya | for Western tourists | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | participle | a difficult country | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | visit | to-infinitive | Libya not said here | due stringent visa requirements | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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