Tunis, sentence 231
From Wikipedia, «Tunis», 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.
After independence, the Tunisian government implemented a plan to cope with the population growth of the city and country, a system of family planning, to attempt to lower the rate of population growth.
Who acts: Tunisian government, city · What happens: implement, cope, attempt, lower, grow · To what, where: plan, rate
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tunis». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tunisian government, city), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 independence | case |
| 2 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 implemented | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 independence | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 government | det |
| 5 | Tunisian | Tunisian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 government | compound |
| 6 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 implemented | nsubj |
| 7 | implemented | implement | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 plan | det |
| 9 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 implemented | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 cope | mark |
| 11 | cope | cope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 plan | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 growth | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 growth | det |
| 14 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 growth | compound |
| 15 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cope | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 city | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 city | det |
| 18 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 growth | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 country | cc |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 city | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 system | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 system | det |
| 23 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 growth | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 planning | case |
| 25 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 planning | compound |
| 26 | planning | planning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 system | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 attempt | punct |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 attempt | mark |
| 29 | attempt | attempt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cope | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 lower | mark |
| 31 | lower | lower | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 attempt | xcomp |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 rate | det |
| 33 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lower | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 growth | case |
| 35 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 growth | compound |
| 36 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 rate | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 implemented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | implement | past | the Tunisian government | a plan | after independence | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient | |||
| 2 | cope | to-infinitive | the Tunisian government not said here | a plan not said here | with the population growth of the city and country and a system of family planning | vn cope-83-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with growth=Theme | |||
| 3 | attempt | to-infinitive | the Tunisian government not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | lower not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Tunisian government not said here | the rate of population growth | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rate=Theme | ||||
| 5 | grow | the city and country | nom growth «process intransitive»: of=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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