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title: After the capture by the Ottoman Turks, Tripoli once again became a… — Tripoli, Libya · tree and pragmatics
description: After the capture by the Ottoman Turks, Tripoli once again became a base of operation for Barbary pirates. Who acts: Ottoman Turks. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tripoli, Libya» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tripoli, Libya, sentence 42

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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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After the capture by the Ottoman Turks, Tripoli once again became a base of operation for Barbary pirates.

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**Who acts:** Ottoman Turks · **What happens:** become, capture · **To what, where:** base

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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 (Ottoman Turks), 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:42
# text = After the capture by the Ottoman Turks, Tripoli once again became a base of operation for Barbary pirates.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	capture	capture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Ottoman	ottoman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Turks	Turk	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Tripoli	Tripoli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	advmod	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	operation	operation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Barbary	Barbary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	pirates	pirate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past |  | a base of operation for Barbary pirates |  |  | after the capture by the Ottoman Turks and Tripoli; again |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **capture** |  | the Ottoman Turks and Tripoli |  |  |  |  |  | nom capture «act transitive»: by=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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