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title: The concept of ownership is low however and souks often spill out on… — Tunis · tree and pragmatics
description: The concept of ownership is low however and souks often spill out onto public roads. Who acts: concept, souks. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tunis» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tunis, sentence 290

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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 concept of ownership is low however and souks often spill out onto public roads.

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**Who acts:** concept, souks · **What happens:** be, spill out, conceive · **To what, where:** public roads, ownership

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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 (concept, souks), 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:290
# text = The concept of ownership is low however and souks often spill out onto public roads.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	concept	concept	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	ownership	ownership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	however	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	souks	souk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	often	often	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	spill	spill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the concept of ownership |  |  |  |  | however, low *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **spill out** | present | souks |  |  | public roads |  | often *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto road=Location |
| 3 | **conceive** |  |  | ownership |  |  |  |  | nom concept «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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