Tripoli, Libya, sentence 1
From Wikipedia, «Tripoli, 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.
Tripoli, historically known as Tripoli-of-the-West, is the capital and largest city of Libya, with a population of about 1.317 million people in 2021.
Who acts: Tripoli · What happens: know, be · To what, where: Tripoli, capital
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tripoli, Libya». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tripoli), 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 | Tripoli | Tripoli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 capital | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 known | punct |
| 3 | historically | historically | ADV | _ | 4 known | advmod |
| 4 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Tripoli | acl |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 Tripoli | case |
| 6 | Tripoli | Tripoli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 known | obl |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 West | punct |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 West | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 of | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 West | det |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 the | punct |
| 12 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Tripoli | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tripoli | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 capital | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 capital | det |
| 16 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 city | cc |
| 18 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 city | amod |
| 19 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 capital | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Libya | case |
| 21 | Libya | Libya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 city | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 population | punct |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 population | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 population | det |
| 25 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 capital | appos |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 people | case |
| 27 | about | about | ADV | _ | 29 million | advmod |
| 28 | 1.317 | 1.317 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 million | compound |
| 29 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 people | nummod |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 population | nmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 2021 | case |
| 32 | 2021 | 2021 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 people | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 capital | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | Tripoli not said here | as Tripoli and the West; historically property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as tripoli=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Tripoli | the capital and largest city of Libya | largest city of Libya conj; a population of million people in 2021 appos | tree rules |
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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