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title: The number of people living below the poverty line, falling at the n… — Tunis · tree and pragmatics
description: The number of people living below the poverty line, falling at the national level, remains higher in urban areas. Who acts: people, number. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tunis» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tunis, sentence 243

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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 number of people living below the poverty line, falling at the national level, remains higher in urban areas.

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**Who acts:** people, number · **What happens:** live, fall, remain · **To what, where:** poverty line, national level

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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 (people, number), 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:243
# text = The number of people living below the poverty line, falling at the national level, remains higher in urban areas.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	below	below	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	conj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	xcomp	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  | the poverty line |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme below line=Location |
| 2 | **fall** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  | the national level |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at level=Location |
| 3 | **remain** | present | the number of people |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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