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title: In November 2024, the Government of National Unity announced it woul… — Libya · tree and pragmatics
description: In November 2024, the Government of National Unity announced it would instate a morality police to crack-down on "weird haircuts", enforce "modest" clothing, and require male guardians for women. Who acts: Government, disaster. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Libya» with its dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Libya, sentence 274

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From Wikipedia, [«Libya»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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In November 2024, the Government of National Unity announced it would instate a morality police to crack-down on "weird haircuts", enforce "modest" clothing, and require male guardians for women.

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**Who acts:** Government, disaster · **What happens:** announce, instate, crack down, enforce, require · **To what, where:** morality police, weird haircuts, modest clothing, male guardians · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Government, disaster), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:274
# text = In November 2024, the Government of National Unity announced it would instate a morality police to crack-down on "weird haircuts", enforce "modest" clothing, and require male guardians for women.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
3	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Unity	Unity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	instate	instate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	morality	morality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	police	police	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	crack	crack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	haircuts	haircut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	enforce	enforce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	modest	modest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	clothing	clothing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	require	require	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
35	male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	guardians	guardian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | the Government of National Unity |  |  |  | november |  | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **instate** | would | disaster | a morality police |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **crack down** | to-infinitive | disaster *not said here* |  |  | weird haircuts |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on haircut=Location |
| 4 | **enforce** | infinitive | disaster *not said here* | modest clothing |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothing=Theme |
| 5 | **require** | present | the Government of National Unity *not said here* | male guardians |  |  |  | for women | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme guardian=Precondition |

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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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**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.

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