Tunis, sentence 442
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.
This city has a high density of traffic because vehicle ownership is rising at 7.5% per year.
Who acts: city, vehicle ownership · What happens: have, rise · To what, where: high density, traffic
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 (city, vehicle ownership), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 density | det |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 density | amod |
| 6 | density | density | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 traffic | case |
| 8 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 density | nmod |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 rising | mark |
| 10 | vehicle | vehicle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ownership | compound |
| 11 | ownership | ownership | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rising | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 rising | aux |
| 13 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 traffic | acl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 % | case |
| 15 | 7.5 | 7.5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 % | nummod |
| 16 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 13 rising | obl |
| 17 | per | per | ADP | _ | 18 year | case |
| 18 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 % | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | this city | a high density of traffic | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent density=Patient | ||||
| 2 | rise | present · progressive | vehicle ownership | traffic not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location traffic=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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Tunis», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tunis/442/