Tripoli, Libya, sentence 186
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.
Its main component is a square courtyard surrounded by vaulted galleries and small rooms where students lived.
Who acts: main component, students, type · What happens: be, surround, vault, live, compose · To what, where: square courtyard
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 (main component, students, type), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 component | nmod:poss |
| 2 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 component | amod |
| 3 | component | component | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 courtyard | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 courtyard | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 courtyard | det |
| 6 | square | square | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 courtyard | amod |
| 7 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 courtyard | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 galleries | case |
| 10 | vaulted | vault | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 galleries | amod |
| 11 | galleries | gallery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rooms | cc |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rooms | amod |
| 14 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 galleries | conj |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 lived | advmod |
| 16 | students | student | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lived | nsubj |
| 17 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 rooms | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 courtyard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | type's main component | a square courtyard | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | surround | participle | a square courtyard not said here | vaulted galleries and small rooms obl:agent | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | vault | participle | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | live | past | students | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | compose | type | nom component «cognition transitive»: poss=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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