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title: The result of the battle for Tripoli's central airport was its compl… — Tripoli, Libya · tree and pragmatics
description: The result of the battle for Tripoli's central airport was its complete destruction with 90% of the facilities incapacitated, or burned down with an unknown estimate Billions of dollars in Damage, with another 10 or so planes destroyed. Who acts: result. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tripoli, Libya» wi
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# Tripoli, Libya, sentence 242

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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 result of the battle for Tripoli's central airport was its complete destruction with 90% of the facilities incapacitated, or burned down with an unknown estimate Billions of dollars in Damage, with another 10 or so planes destroyed.

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**Who acts:** result · **What happens:** be, incapacitate, burn down, destroy, result · **To what, where:** complete destruction, facilities, 10 planes, battle

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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 (result), 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:242
# text = The result of the battle for Tripoli's central airport was its complete destruction with 90% of the facilities incapacitated, or burned down with an unknown estimate Billions of dollars in Damage, with another 10 or so planes destroyed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	Tripoli	Tripoli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	airport	airport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	90	90	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	facilities	facility	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	incapacitated	incapacitate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	_
25	down	down	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	estimate	estimate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Billions	billion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Damage	Damage	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	38	det	_	_
38	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
39	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	conj	_	_
41	planes	plane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
42	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the result of the battle for Tripoli's central airport | result's complete destruction |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **incapacitate** | participle |  | the facilities *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **burn down** | participle |  | 10 planes |  |  |  | with a unknown estimate Billions of dollars in Damage | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with billion=Theme |
| 4 | **destroy** | participle |  | 10 planes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **result** |  |  | the battle for Tripoli's central airport |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon 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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