Tunis, sentence 396
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.
The first animated film was shown in Tunis by the Lumiere brothers as early as 1896.
Who acts: Lumiere brothers · What happens: show · To what, where: first animated film
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 (Lumiere brothers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 film | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 film | amod |
| 3 | animated | animated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 film | amod |
| 4 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shown | aux:pass |
| 6 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Tunis | case |
| 8 | Tunis | Tunis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 shown | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 brothers | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 brothers | det |
| 11 | Lumiere | Lumiere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 brothers | compound |
| 12 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 shown | obl |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 early | advmod |
| 14 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 shown | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 1896 | case |
| 16 | 1896 | 1896 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 early | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past · passive | the Lumiere brothers | the first animated film | in Tunis; early property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Patient in tunis=Topic |
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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