Tunisia, sentence 136
From Wikipedia, «Tunisia», 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.
Despite his best efforts, the Italians remained neutral as they did not want to ruin relations with NATO ally France, nor did they want to hamper any possibility of future relations with Tunisia as it served as a key part of the Mediterranean.
Who acts: Italians, possibility · What happens: remain, not want, ruin, do, want, hamper · To what, where: relations, possibility
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tunisia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Italians, possibility), 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 | Despite | despite | ADP | _ | 4 efforts | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 efforts | nmod:poss |
| 3 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 efforts | amod |
| 4 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 remained | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 efforts | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Italians | det |
| 7 | Italians | Italian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 remained | nsubj |
| 8 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | neutral | neutral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 remained | xcomp |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 want | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 want | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 want | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 want | advmod |
| 14 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 remained | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 ruin | mark |
| 16 | ruin | ruin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 want | xcomp |
| 17 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ruin | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 France | case |
| 19 | NATO | NATO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 ally | compound |
| 20 | ally | ally | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 France | nmod:desc |
| 21 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 relations | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 did | punct |
| 23 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 24 did | cc |
| 24 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 remained | conj |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 want | nsubj |
| 26 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 did | ccomp |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 hamper | mark |
| 28 | hamper | hamper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 want | xcomp |
| 29 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 possibility | det |
| 30 | possibility | possibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hamper | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 relations | case |
| 32 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 relations | amod |
| 33 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 possibility | nmod |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 Tunisia | case |
| 35 | Tunisia | Tunisia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 relations | nmod |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 served | mark |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 served | nsubj |
| 38 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 hamper | advcl |
| 39 | as | as | ADP | _ | 42 part | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 part | det |
| 41 | key | key | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 part | amod |
| 42 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 served | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 Mediterranean | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Mediterranean | det |
| 45 | Mediterranean | Mediterranean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 part | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | the Italians | despite Bourguiba's best efforts; neutral property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not want | past · do-support | Italians = italian | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ruin not said to happen | to-infinitive | Italians = italian not said here | relations | with France NATO ally | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent relation=Patient with france=Instrument | |||
| 4 | do | past | the Italians not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | want | present | Italians = italian | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | hamper not said to happen | to-infinitive | Italians = italian not said here | any possibility of future relations with Tunisia | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer possibility=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | serve | past | possibility | as a key part of the Mediterranean | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as part=Attribute |
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, «Tunisia», 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.
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