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title: Pasta is the staple food in the Western side of Libya, whereas rice… — Libya · tree and pragmatics
description: Pasta is the staple food in the Western side of Libya, whereas rice is generally the staple food in the east. Who acts: Pasta, rice. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Libya» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Libya, sentence 572

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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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Pasta is the staple food in the Western side of Libya, whereas rice is generally the staple food in the east.

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**Who acts:** Pasta, rice · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** staple food, Western side, east

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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 (Pasta, rice), 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:572
# text = Pasta is the staple food in the Western side of Libya, whereas rice is generally the staple food in the east.
1	Pasta	Pasta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	staple	staple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Libya	Libya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	staple	staple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Pasta | the staple food and the staple food |  | the Western side of Libya |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | rice | the staple food |  | the east |  | generally *property* | tree rules |

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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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