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title: The Medina also preserves urban caravanserais (funduq in Arabic, plu… — Tripoli, Libya · tree and pragmatics
description: The Medina also preserves urban caravanserais (funduq in Arabic, plural: fanadiq) from the Ottoman period. Who acts: Medina. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tripoli, Libya» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tripoli, Libya, sentence 189

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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 Medina also preserves urban caravanserais (funduq in Arabic, plural: fanadiq) from the Ottoman period.

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**Who acts:** Medina · **What happens:** preserve · **To what, where:** urban caravanserais

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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 (Medina), 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:189
# text = The Medina also preserves urban caravanserais (funduq in Arabic, plural: fanadiq) from the Ottoman period.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Medina	Medina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	preserves	preserve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	caravanserais	caravanserai	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	funduq	funduq	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	fanadiq	fanadiq	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Ottoman	ottoman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **preserve** | present | the Medina | urban caravanserais |  |  |  | from the Ottoman period | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent caravanserai=Beneficiary from period=Theme |

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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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