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title: Gaddafi merged civil and sharia courts in 1973. — Libya · tree and pragmatics
description: Gaddafi merged civil and sharia courts in 1973. Who acts: Gaddafi. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Libya» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Libya, sentence 335

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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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Gaddafi merged civil and sharia courts in 1973.

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**Who acts:** Gaddafi · **What happens:** merge · **To what, where:** 1973

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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 (Gaddafi), 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:335
# text = Gaddafi merged civil and sharia courts in 1973.
1	Gaddafi	Gaddafi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	merged	merge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	sharia	sharia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1973	1973	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **merge** | past | Gaddafi |  |  | 1973 |  | civil *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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