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title: It was the second time that Tripoli was bombed since the 1986 U.S. a… — Tripoli, Libya · tree and pragmatics
description: It was the second time that Tripoli was bombed since the 1986 U.S. airstrikes, and the second time since the 1986 airstrike that bombed Bab al-Azizia, Gaddafi's heavily fortified compound. Who acts: city, 1986 airstrike. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tripoli, Libya» with its dependency tree and pragmat
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# Tripoli, Libya, sentence 110

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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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It was the second time that Tripoli was bombed since the 1986 U.S. airstrikes, and the second time since the 1986 airstrike that bombed Bab al-Azizia, Gaddafi's heavily fortified compound.

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**Who acts:** city, 1986 airstrike · **What happens:** be, bomb, fortify · **To what, where:** second time, Tripoli, Bab, Gaddafi

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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 (city, 1986 airstrike), 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:110
# text = It was the second time that Tripoli was bombed since the 1986 U.S. airstrikes, and the second time since the 1986 airstrike that bombed Bab al-Azizia, Gaddafi's heavily fortified compound.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	Tripoli	Tripoli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	bombed	bomb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	since	since	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	1986	1986	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	U.S.	U.S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	airstrikes	airstrike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	since	since	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	1986	1986	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	airstrike	airstrike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	bombed	bomb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	Bab	Bab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Azizia	Azizia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
31	Gaddafi	Gaddafi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	fortified	fortify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	compound	compound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	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** | past | city | the second time |  |  |  | fortified compound *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bomb** | past · passive |  | Tripoli |  |  | since the 1986 U.S. airstrikes |  | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **bomb** | past | the 1986 airstrike | Bab and Azizia |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bab=Patient |
| 4 | **fortify** | present · passive |  | Gaddafi |  |  | time | heavily *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: subject=Recipient |

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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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