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title: The city is further South than Sicily, on a similar latitude to Cádi… — Tunis · tree and pragmatics
description: The city is further South than Sicily, on a similar latitude to Cádiz, an ancient city in Southern Spain with ties to the Phoenician and Carthaginian civilizations. Who acts: city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tunis» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tunis, sentence 141

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From Wikipedia, [«Tunis»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunis), 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 city is further South than Sicily, on a similar latitude to Cádiz, an ancient city in Southern Spain with ties to the Phoenician and Carthaginian civilizations.

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**Who acts:** city · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tunis». 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.

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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:Tunis:141
# text = The city is further South than Sicily, on a similar latitude to Cádiz, an ancient city in Southern Spain with ties to the Phoenician and Carthaginian civilizations.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	further	further	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	South	south	ADV	RB	_	7	compound	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Sicily	Sicily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	latitude	latitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Cádiz	Cádiz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	Southern	Southern	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	ties	tie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	Phoenician	Phoenician	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Carthaginian	Carthaginian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	civilizations	civilization	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the city |  |  |  |  | than South Sicily; a similar latitude to Cádiz *appos* | tree rules |

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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, «Tunis», 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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