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title: Libya had long been a notoriously difficult country for Western tour… — Libya · tree and pragmatics
description: Libya had long been a notoriously difficult country for Western tourists to visit due to stringent visa requirements. Who acts: Libya. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Libya» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Libya, sentence 429

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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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Libya had long been a notoriously difficult country for Western tourists to visit due to stringent visa requirements.

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**Who acts:** Libya · **What happens:** have, be, visit · **To what, where:** difficult country

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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 (Libya), 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:429
# text = Libya had long been a notoriously difficult country for Western tourists to visit due to stringent visa requirements.
1	Libya	Libya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	notoriously	notoriously	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tourists	tourist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
14	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	stringent	stringent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	visa	visa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	requirements	requirement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Libya |  |  |  |  | for Western tourists | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | participle |  | a difficult country |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **visit** | to-infinitive | Libya *not said here* |  |  |  |  | due stringent visa requirements | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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