--- title: On 28 August 2020, the BBC Africa Eye and BBC Arabic Documentaries r… — Libya · tree and pragmatics description: On 28 August 2020, the BBC Africa Eye and BBC Arabic Documentaries revealed that a drone operated by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) killed 26 young cadets at a military academy in Tripoli, on 4 January. Who acts: BBC Africa Eye, drone. 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On 28 August 2020, the BBC Africa Eye and BBC Arabic Documentaries revealed that a drone operated by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) killed 26 young cadets at a military academy in Tripoli, on 4 January. **Who acts:** BBC Africa Eye, drone · **What happens:** reveal, operate, kill · **To what, where:** 28, drone, 26 young cadets, military academy This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Libya». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (BBC Africa Eye, drone), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Libya:260 # text = On 28 August 2020, the BBC Africa Eye and BBC Arabic Documentaries revealed that a drone operated by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) killed 26 young cadets at a military academy in Tripoli, on 4 January. 1 On on ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 28 28 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 obl _ _ 3 August August PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:unmarked _ _ 4 2020 2020 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 BBC BBC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Eye Eye PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 BBC BBC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 Arabic Arabic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Documentaries documentary NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 revealed reveal VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 drone drone NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 18 operated operate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 United United ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 Arab Arab PROPN NNP _ 23 flat _ _ 23 Emirates Emirates PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 UAE UAE PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 27 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 28 26 26 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 29 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 cadets cadet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 military military ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 academy academy NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Tripoli Tripoli PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 40 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reveal** | past | the BBC Africa Eye and BBC | | | 28 2020 August | | Arabic Documentaries *nsubj* | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **operate** | participle | | a drone *not said here* | | | | by the United Arab Emirates | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **kill** | past | a drone | 26 young cadets | | a military academy in Tripoli on 4 January | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cadet=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, «Libya», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 259](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Libya/259/) - next →: [sentence 261](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Libya/261/) - ↑ back to [Libya](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Libya/)