--- title: The city historically had at least three gates: Bab Hawwara to the s… — Tripoli, Libya · tree and pragmatics description: The city historically had at least three gates: Bab Hawwara to the southeast (probably Bab al-Mensha today), Bab Zenata (originally Bab al-Ashdar) to the west, and Bab al-Bahr to the north (close to the sea). Who acts: city. 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The city historically had at least three gates: Bab Hawwara to the southeast (probably Bab al-Mensha today), Bab Zenata (originally Bab al-Ashdar) to the west, and Bab al-Bahr to the north (close to the sea). **Who acts:** city · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** three gates 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:175 # text = The city historically had at least three gates: Bab Hawwara to the southeast (probably Bab al-Mensha today), Bab Zenata (originally Bab al-Ashdar) to the west, and Bab al-Bahr to the north (close to the sea). 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 historically historically ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 nmod _ _ 7 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 gates gate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 Bab Bab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Hawwara Hawwara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 southeast southeast NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 probably probably ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 Bab Bab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 al Al PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 Mensha Mensha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 flat _ _ 21 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Bab Bab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 25 Zenata Zenata PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 flat _ _ 26 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 originally originally ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 Bab Bab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 29 al Al PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 Ashdar Ashdar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 west west NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 Bab Bab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 39 al Al PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 Bahr Bahr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 45 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 parataxis _ _ 47 to to ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | the city | three gates Bab Hawwara to the southeast and Bab | | | | to the west; Bab Bahr to the north *obl*; historically *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 174](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tripoli,_Libya/174/) - next →: [sentence 176](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tripoli,_Libya/176/) - ↑ back to [Tripoli, Libya](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tripoli,_Libya/)