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title: The UN-recognized Libyan government in the west of the country is ex… — Tripoli, Libya · tree and pragmatics
description: The UN-recognized Libyan government in the west of the country is expected to assert its control in May 2025 following the reported killing of powerful militia leader Abdelghani al-Kikli, also known as Gheniwa. Who acts: UN-recognized Libyan government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tripoli, Libya» wit
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# Tripoli, Libya, sentence 121

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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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The UN-recognized Libyan government in the west of the country is expected to assert its control in May 2025 following the reported killing of powerful militia leader Abdelghani al-Kikli, also known as Gheniwa.

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**Who acts:** UN-recognized Libyan government · **What happens:** expect, assert, follow, report, know, kill · **To what, where:** UN-recognized Libyan government, control, powerful militia leader

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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 (UN-recognized Libyan government), 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:121
# text = The UN-recognized Libyan government in the west of the country is expected to assert its control in May 2025 following the reported killing of powerful militia leader Abdelghani al-Kikli, also known as Gheniwa.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	UN-recognized	un-recognized	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Libyan	Libyan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	assert	assert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	2025	2025	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	flat	_	_
20	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	killing	killing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	militia	militia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	Abdelghani	Abdelghani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
29	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Kikli	Kikli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	also	also	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Gheniwa	Gheniwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** | present · passive |  | the UN-recognized Libyan government in the west of the country |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **assert** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the UN-recognized Libyan government in the west of the country *not said here* | country's control |  |  | may | follow the reported killing of powerful militia leader | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Theme |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **report** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as Gheniwa | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as gheniwa=Attribute |
| 6 | **kill** |  |  | powerful militia leader |  |  |  |  | nom killing «event transitive»: of=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, «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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