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title: The National Theatre of Tunisia is an important public enterprise in… — Tunis · tree and pragmatics
description: The National Theatre of Tunisia is an important public enterprise in Tunis, and since 1988 been located in the Khaznadar palace (dating from the middle of the 19th century and situated in the Halfaouine quarter), renamed "Theater Palace". Who acts: National Theatre, Khaznadar palace. A sentence of W
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# Tunis, sentence 384

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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 National Theatre of Tunisia is an important public enterprise in Tunis, and since 1988 been located in the Khaznadar palace (dating from the middle of the 19th century and situated in the Halfaouine quarter), renamed "Theater Palace".

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**Who acts:** National Theatre, Khaznadar palace · **What happens:** be, locate, date, situate, rename · **To what, where:** important public enterprise, Tunis, Khaznadar palace, middle, Halfaouine quarter

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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 (National Theatre, Khaznadar palace), 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:384
# text = The National Theatre of Tunisia is an important public enterprise in Tunis, and since 1988 been located in the Khaznadar palace (dating from the middle of the 19th century and situated in the Halfaouine quarter), renamed "Theater Palace".
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Theatre	Theatre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Tunisia	Tunisia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	enterprise	enterprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Tunis	Tunis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	since	since	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1988	1988	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Khaznadar	Khaznadar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	dating	date	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	31	amod	_	_
31	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	situated	situate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Halfaouine	halfaouine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	renamed	rename	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
41	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	Theater	Theater	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the National Theatre of Tunisia | a important public enterprise |  | Tunis |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **locate** | participle · passive | the National Theatre of Tunisia *not said here* |  |  | the Khaznadar palace | since 1988 |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **date** | gerund | the Khaznadar palace *not said here* |  |  | the middle of the 19th century |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **situate** | participle | the National Theatre of Tunisia *not said here* |  |  | the Halfaouine quarter |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in quarter=Destination |
| 5 | **rename** | participle |  | a important public enterprise *not said here* |  |  |  | Theater Palace *appos* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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