Tunis, sentence 259
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.
Some of the fortifications around it have now largely disappeared, and it is flanked by the two suburbs of Bab Souika to the north and Bab El Jazira to the south.
Who acts: Some, two suburbs · What happens: have, flank · To what, where: city
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 (Some, two suburbs), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 have | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 fortifications | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fortifications | det |
| 4 | fortifications | fortification | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Some | nmod |
| 5 | around | around | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fortifications | nmod |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 have | advmod |
| 9 | largely | largely | ADV | _ | 10 disappeared | advmod |
| 10 | disappeared | disappeared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 now | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flanked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flanked | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 flanked | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 flanked | aux:pass |
| 15 | flanked | flank | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 have | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 suburbs | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 suburbs | det |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 suburbs | nummod |
| 19 | suburbs | suburb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 flanked | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Bab | case |
| 21 | Bab | Bab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 suburbs | nmod |
| 22 | Souika | Souika | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Bab | flat |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 north | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 north | det |
| 25 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flanked | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 El | cc |
| 27 | Bab | Bab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 El | compound |
| 28 | El | El | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 north | conj |
| 29 | Jazira | Jazira | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 El | flat |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 south | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 south | det |
| 32 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flanked | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Some of the fortifications around city | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | flank | present · passive | the two suburbs of Bab | city | to the north and Bab El; to the south | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
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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