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title: The Carthage Film Festival is the oldest established film festival i… — Tunis · tree and pragmatics
description: The Carthage Film Festival is the oldest established film festival in Africa, running biennially until 2014 and annually thereafter. Who acts: Carthage Film Festival. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tunis» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tunis, sentence 399

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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 Carthage Film Festival is the oldest established film festival in Africa, running biennially until 2014 and annually thereafter.

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**Who acts:** Carthage Film Festival · **What happens:** establish, be, run · **To what, where:** oldest established film festival, Africa

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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 (Carthage Film Festival), 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:399
# text = The Carthage Film Festival is the oldest established film festival in Africa, running biennially until 2014 and annually thereafter.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Carthage	Carthage	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	Film	Film	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Festival	Festival	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
8	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
9	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	biennially	biennially	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	until	until	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	annually	annually	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	RB	_	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the Carthage Film Festival | the oldest established film festival |  | Africa |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **run** | gerund | the Carthage Film Festival *not said here* |  |  |  | until 2014 | biennially *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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