---
title: Libya is bounded to the north by the Mediterranean Sea, the northwes… — Libya · tree and pragmatics
description: Libya is bounded to the north by the Mediterranean Sea, the northwest by Tunisia, the west by Algeria, the southwest by Niger, the south by Chad, the southeast by Sudan, and the east by Egypt, as well as maritime borders with Greece, Italy and Malta to the north. Who acts: Mediterranean Sea. A sente
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Libya/276/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Libya](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Libya/) / 276

# Libya, sentence 276

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Libya is bounded to the north by the Mediterranean Sea, the northwest by Tunisia, the west by Algeria, the southwest by Niger, the south by Chad, the southeast by Sudan, and the east by Egypt, as well as maritime borders with Greece, Italy and Malta to the north.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Mediterranean Sea · **What happens:** bound · **To what, where:** Libya

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Mediterranean Sea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:276
# text = Libya is bounded to the north by the Mediterranean Sea, the northwest by Tunisia, the west by Algeria, the southwest by Niger, the south by Chad, the southeast by Sudan, and the east by Egypt, as well as maritime borders with Greece, Italy and Malta to the north.
1	Libya	Libya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	bounded	bound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	northwest	northwest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Tunisia	Tunisia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Algeria	Algeria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	southwest	southwest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Niger	Niger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Chad	Chad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	southeast	southeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Sudan	Sudan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	47	cc	_	_
44	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	43	fixed	_	_
45	as	as	ADP	IN	_	43	fixed	_	_
46	maritime	maritime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	Malta	Malta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	_
54	to	to	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bound** | present · passive | the Mediterranean Sea | Libya |  |  |  | to the north; by Tunisia; the east by Egypt as maritime borders with Greece and Italy and Malta to the north *parataxis* | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 275](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Libya/275/)
- next →: [sentence 277](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Libya/277/)
- ↑ back to [Libya](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Libya/)