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title: Tripoli, historically known as Tripoli-of-the-West, is the capital a… — Tripoli, Libya · tree and pragmatics
description: Tripoli, historically known as Tripoli-of-the-West, is the capital and largest city of Libya, with a population of about 1.317 million people in 2021. Who acts: Tripoli. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tripoli, Libya» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tripoli, Libya, sentence 1

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From Wikipedia, [«Tripoli, Libya»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripoli,_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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Tripoli, historically known as Tripoli-of-the-West, is the capital and largest city of Libya, with a population of about 1.317 million people in 2021.

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**Who acts:** Tripoli · **What happens:** know, be · **To what, where:** Tripoli, capital

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tripoli, Libya». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tripoli), 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:Tripoli,_Libya:1
# text = Tripoli, historically known as Tripoli-of-the-West, is the capital and largest city of Libya, with a population of about 1.317 million people in 2021.
1	Tripoli	Tripoli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	historically	historically	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Tripoli	Tripoli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Libya	Libya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	about	about	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	1.317	1.317	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	compound	_	_
29	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  | Tripoli *not said here* |  |  |  | as Tripoli and the West; historically *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as tripoli=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Tripoli | the capital and largest city of Libya |  |  |  | largest city of Libya *conj*; a population of million people in 2021 *appos* | 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, «Tripoli, 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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