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title: Its main component is a square courtyard surrounded by vaulted galle… — Tripoli, Libya · tree and pragmatics
description: Its main component is a square courtyard surrounded by vaulted galleries and small rooms where students lived. Who acts: main component, students, type. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tripoli, Libya» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tripoli, Libya, sentence 186

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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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Its main component is a square courtyard surrounded by vaulted galleries and small rooms where students lived.

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**Who acts:** main component, students, type · **What happens:** be, surround, vault, live, compose · **To what, where:** square courtyard

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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 (main component, students, type), 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:186
# text = Its main component is a square courtyard surrounded by vaulted galleries and small rooms where students lived.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	component	component	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	square	square	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	vaulted	vault	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	galleries	gallery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:agent	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
16	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | type's main component | a square courtyard |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **surround** | participle |  | a square courtyard *not said here* |  |  |  | vaulted galleries and small rooms *obl:agent* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **vault** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **live** | past | students |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **compose** |  | type |  |  |  |  |  | nom component «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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