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title: Sophie Bessis, (born 1947), Franco-Tunisian historian, journalist, a… — Tunis · tree and pragmatics
description: Sophie Bessis, (born 1947), Franco-Tunisian historian, journalist, and researcher Who acts: Sophie. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tunis» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tunis, sentence 493

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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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Sophie Bessis, (born 1947), Franco-Tunisian historian, journalist, and researcher

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**Who acts:** Sophie · **What happens:** bear · **To what, where:** 1947, Sophie

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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 (Sophie), 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:493
# text = Sophie Bessis, (born 1947), Franco-Tunisian historian, journalist, and researcher
1	Sophie	Sophie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Bessis	Bessis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
6	1947	1947	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	Franco	Franco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Tunisian	tunisian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	historian	historian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	journalist	journalist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	researcher	researcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle | Sophie and researcher *not said here* | 1947 |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 1947=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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