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title: Bab Menara (initially known as Bab El Artha) opened onto the medina… — Tunis · tree and pragmatics
description: Bab Menara (initially known as Bab El Artha) opened onto the medina and onto the suburb of El Haoua. Who acts: Bab. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tunis» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tunis, sentence 324

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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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Bab Menara (initially known as Bab El Artha) opened onto the medina and onto the suburb of El Haoua.

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**Who acts:** Bab · **What happens:** know, open · **To what, where:** medina

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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 (Bab), 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:324
# text = Bab Menara (initially known as Bab El Artha) opened onto the medina and onto the suburb of El Haoua.
1	Bab	Bab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	Menara	Menara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	initially	initially	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Bab	Bab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	El	El	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	Artha	Artha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
11	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	medina	medina	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	suburb	suburb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	El	El	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	Haoua	Haoua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as Bab El; initially *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as el=Attribute |
| 2 | **open** | past | Bab |  |  | the medina and the suburb of El |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent onto medina=Recipient |

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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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