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title: After World War II, suburbs began to rapidly spring up on the outski… — Tunis · tree and pragmatics
description: After World War II, suburbs began to rapidly spring up on the outskirts of Tunis. Who acts: suburbs. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tunis» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tunis, sentence 180

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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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After World War II, suburbs began to rapidly spring up on the outskirts of Tunis.

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**Who acts:** suburbs · **What happens:** begin, spring up · **To what, where:** outskirts

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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 (suburbs), 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:180
# text = After World War II, suburbs began to rapidly spring up on the outskirts of Tunis.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	suburbs	suburb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	spring	spring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	outskirts	outskirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Tunis	Tunis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | suburbs |  |  |  | after World |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **spring up** | to-infinitive | suburbs *not said here* |  |  | the outskirts of Tunis |  | rapidly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on outskirt=Location |

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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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