Tunis, sentence 75
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.
A naval expedition led by Charles himself was dispatched in 1535, and the city was recaptured.
What happens: lead, dispatch, recapture · To what, where: naval expedition, 1535, 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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 expedition | det |
| 2 | naval | naval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 expedition | amod |
| 3 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dispatched | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 expedition | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 Charles | case |
| 6 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obl:agent |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 Charles | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dispatched | aux:pass |
| 9 | dispatched | dispatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1535 | case |
| 11 | 1535 | 1535 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 dispatched | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 recaptured | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 recaptured | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 city | det |
| 15 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 recaptured | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 recaptured | aux:pass |
| 17 | recaptured | recapture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 dispatched | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dispatched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | participle | a naval expedition not said here | Charles Charles obl:agent | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | dispatch | past · passive | a naval expedition | 1535 | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | recapture | past · passive | the city | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: subject=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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