Libya, sentence 73
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.
By the 10th century, the Shiite Fatimids controlled Western Libya, and ruled the entire region in 972 and appointed Bologhine ibn Ziri as governor.
Who acts: Shiite Fatimids · What happens: control, rule, appoint · To what, where: Western Libya, entire region, 972, Bologhine
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 (Shiite Fatimids), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 century | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 century | det |
| 3 | 10th | 10th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 4 century | amod |
| 4 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 controlled | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 century | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Fatimids | det |
| 7 | Shiite | Shiite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Fatimids | amod |
| 8 | Fatimids | fatimid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 controlled | nsubj |
| 9 | controlled | control | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Western | Western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Libya | amod |
| 11 | Libya | Libya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 controlled | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ruled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ruled | cc |
| 14 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 controlled | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 region | det |
| 16 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 region | amod |
| 17 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ruled | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 972 | case |
| 19 | 972 | 972 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 ruled | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 appointed | cc |
| 21 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ruled | conj |
| 22 | Bologhine | Bologhine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 appointed | obj |
| 23 | ibn | Ibn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Bologhine | flat |
| 24 | Ziri | Ziri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Bologhine | flat |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 governor | case |
| 26 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 appointed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 controlled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | control | past | the Shiite Fatimids | Western Libya | century | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent libya=Theme | |||
| 2 | rule | past | the entire region | 972 | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent region=Theme | ||||
| 3 | appoint | past | Bologhine | as governor | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent bologhine=Theme as governor=Attribute |
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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