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title: After independence, the Tunisian government implemented a plan to co… — Tunis · tree and pragmatics
description: After independence, the Tunisian government implemented a plan to cope with the population growth of the city and country, a system of family planning, to attempt to lower the rate of population growth. Who acts: Tunisian government, city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tunis» with its dependency tree a
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# Tunis, sentence 231

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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 independence, the Tunisian government implemented a plan to cope with the population growth of the city and country, a system of family planning, to attempt to lower the rate of population growth.

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**Who acts:** Tunisian government, city · **What happens:** implement, cope, attempt, lower, grow · **To what, where:** plan, rate

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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 (Tunisian government, 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:231
# text = After independence, the Tunisian government implemented a plan to cope with the population growth of the city and country, a system of family planning, to attempt to lower the rate of population growth.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Tunisian	Tunisian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	implemented	implement	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	cope	cope	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	planning	planning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	attempt	attempt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	lower	lower	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **implement** | past | the Tunisian government | a plan |  |  | after independence |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient |
| 2 | **cope** | to-infinitive | the Tunisian government *not said here* | a plan *not said here* |  |  |  | with the population growth of the city and country and a system of family planning | vn cope-83-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with growth=Theme |
| 3 | **attempt** | to-infinitive | the Tunisian government *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **lower** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Tunisian government *not said here* | the rate of population growth |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rate=Theme |
| 5 | **grow** |  | the city and country |  |  |  |  |  | nom growth «process intransitive»: of=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, «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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