Tripoli, Libya, sentence 110
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.
It was the second time that Tripoli was bombed since the 1986 U.S. airstrikes, and the second time since the 1986 airstrike that bombed Bab al-Azizia, Gaddafi's heavily fortified compound.
Who acts: city, 1986 airstrike · What happens: be, bomb, fortify · To what, where: second time, Tripoli, Bab, Gaddafi
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 (city, 1986 airstrike), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 time | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 bombed | mark |
| 7 | Tripoli | Tripoli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bombed | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bombed | aux:pass |
| 9 | bombed | bomb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 time | acl:relcl |
| 10 | since | since | ADP | _ | 14 airstrikes | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 airstrikes | det |
| 12 | 1986 | 1986 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 airstrikes | nummod |
| 13 | U.S. | U.S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 airstrikes | compound |
| 14 | airstrikes | airstrike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bombed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 compound | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 compound | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 18 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fortified | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | since | since | ADP | _ | 23 airstrike | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 airstrike | det |
| 22 | 1986 | 1986 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 airstrike | nummod |
| 23 | airstrike | airstrike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 time | nmod |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 bombed | nsubj |
| 25 | bombed | bomb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 airstrike | acl:relcl |
| 26 | Bab | Bab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 bombed | obj |
| 27 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Bab | flat |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Azizia | punct |
| 29 | Azizia | Azizia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Bab | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 time | punct |
| 31 | Gaddafi | Gaddafi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 fortified | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 fortified | aux |
| 33 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 34 fortified | advmod |
| 34 | fortified | fortify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 compound | amod |
| 35 | compound | compound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | parataxis |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | city | the second time | fortified compound parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bomb | past · passive | Tripoli | since the 1986 U.S. airstrikes | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bomb | past | the 1986 airstrike | Bab and Azizia | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bab=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fortify | present · passive | Gaddafi | time | heavily property | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: subject=Recipient |
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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