Tunisia, sentence 24
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.
In 2011, the Tunisian Revolution, which was triggered by dissatisfaction with the lack of freedom and democracy under the 24-year rule of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, overthrew his regime and catalyzed the broader Arab Spring movement across the region.
Who acts: dissatisfaction, Zine El · What happens: trigger, overthrow, catalyze, lack, rule · To what, where: Tunisian Revolution, 2011, regime, broader Arab Spring movement, region, freedom
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 (dissatisfaction, Zine El), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 2011 | case |
| 2 | 2011 | 2011 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 triggered | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 2011 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Revolution | det |
| 5 | Tunisian | Tunisian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Revolution | compound |
| 6 | Revolution | Revolution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 triggered | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 triggered | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 triggered | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 triggered | aux:pass |
| 10 | triggered | trigger | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 dissatisfaction | case |
| 12 | dissatisfaction | dissatisfaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 triggered | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 lack | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lack | det |
| 15 | lack | lack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dissatisfaction | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 freedom | case |
| 17 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lack | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 democracy | cc |
| 19 | democracy | democracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 freedom | conj |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 25 rule | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 rule | det |
| 22 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 year | nummod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 24 | punct |
| 24 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rule | compound |
| 25 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 democracy | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 El | case |
| 27 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Zine | nmod:desc |
| 28 | Zine | Zine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 El | compound |
| 29 | El | El | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 rule | nmod |
| 30 | Abidine | Abidine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 El | flat |
| 31 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 El | flat |
| 32 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 El | flat |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 overthrew | punct |
| 34 | overthrew | overthrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 triggered | parataxis |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 regime | nmod:poss |
| 36 | regime | regime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 overthrew | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 catalyzed | cc |
| 38 | catalyzed | catalyze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 overthrew | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 movement | det |
| 40 | broader | broad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 43 movement | amod |
| 41 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 movement | compound |
| 42 | Spring | Spring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 movement | compound |
| 43 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 catalyzed | obj |
| 44 | across | across | ADP | _ | 46 region | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 region | det |
| 46 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 movement | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 triggered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trigger | past · passive | dissatisfaction with the lack of freedom and democracy under the year rule of Zine El | the Tunisian Revolution | 2011 | which nsubj:pass | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | ||
| 2 | overthrow | past | Tunisia's regime | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | catalyze | participle | the broader Arab Spring movement | the region | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lack | freedom and democracy under the year rule of Zine El | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | rule | Zine El | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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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