--- title: The first true sports facilities were managed under the French prote… — Tunis · tree and pragmatics description: The first true sports facilities were managed under the French protectorate, as illustrated by the development of the Ksar Said racecourse and construction of the Stade Chedli Zouiten in the neighborhood of Belvedere, which had long been the main stadium in the capital before being supplanted by the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tunis/463/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Tunis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tunis/) / 463 # Tunis, sentence 463 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. The first true sports facilities were managed under the French protectorate, as illustrated by the development of the Ksar Said racecourse and construction of the Stade Chedli Zouiten in the neighborhood of Belvedere, which had long been the main stadium in the capital before being supplanted by the Olympic stadium, Stade El Menzah, where EST and CA play their football today. **Who acts:** Olympic stadium, EST · **What happens:** manage, illustrate, say, have, be, supplant · **To what, where:** first true sports facilities, French protectorate, racecourse, neighborhood, main stadium, capital · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Olympic stadium, EST), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:463 # text = The first true sports facilities were managed under the French protectorate, as illustrated by the development of the Ksar Said racecourse and construction of the Stade Chedli Zouiten in the neighborhood of Belvedere, which had long been the main stadium in the capital before being supplanted by the Olympic stadium, Stade El Menzah, where EST and CA play their football today. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 amod _ _ 3 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 sports sport NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 compound _ _ 5 facilities facility NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 managed manage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 under under ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 protectorate protectorate NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 illustrated illustrate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 ccomp _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 development development NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Ksar Ksar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 Said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 22 racecourse racecourse NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 construction construction NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 Stade Stade PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 Chedli Chedli PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 Zouiten Zouiten PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 neighborhood neighborhood NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Belvedere Belvedere PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nmod _ _ 37 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 38 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 42 advmod _ _ 39 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 42 cop _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 stadium stadium NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 46 before before SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 47 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 48 aux:pass _ _ 48 supplanted supplant VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 acl _ _ 49 by by ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 51 Olympic olympic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 stadium stadium NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 54 Stade Stade PROPN NNP Number=Sing 55 compound _ _ 55 El El PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 appos _ _ 56 Menzah Menzah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 55 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 58 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 62 advmod _ _ 59 EST EST PROPN NNP Number=Sing 62 nsubj _ _ 60 and and CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 61 CA CA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 59 conj _ _ 62 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 55 conj _ _ 63 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 64 nmod:poss _ _ 64 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 obj _ _ 65 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **manage** | past · passive | | the first true sports facilities | | the French protectorate | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: subject=Theme under protectorate=Eventuality | | 2 | **illustrate** | participle | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | racecourse and construction of the Chedli Zouiten | | the neighborhood of Belvedere the neighborhood of Belvedere the neighborhood | | by the development of the Ksar | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | past | | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | participle | | the main stadium | | the capital | | long *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **supplant** | gerund · passive | the Olympic stadium | the main stadium *not said here* | | | | | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **play** | present | EST and CA | facilities's football | | | today | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Theme | | 8 | **develop** | | | the Ksar | | | | | nom development «act transitive»: of=patient | | 9 | **construct** | | | the Chedli Zouiten | | | | | nom construction «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 462](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tunis/462/) - next →: [sentence 464](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tunis/464/) - ↑ back to [Tunis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tunis/)