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title: This resulted in the first demolition of the old city walls, from 18… — Tunis · tree and pragmatics
description: This resulted in the first demolition of the old city walls, from 1860, to accommodate growth in the suburbs. Who acts: This. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tunis» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tunis, sentence 97

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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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This resulted in the first demolition of the old city walls, from 1860, to accommodate growth in the suburbs.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** result, accommodate, demolish · **To what, where:** first demolition, growth, suburbs, old city walls

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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 (This), 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:97
# text = This resulted in the first demolition of the old city walls, from 1860, to accommodate growth in the suburbs.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	resulted	result	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	demolition	demolition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1860	1860	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	accommodate	accommodate	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	suburbs	suburb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **result** | participle | This |  |  | the first demolition of the old city walls |  | from 1860 | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in demolition=Location |
| 2 | **accommodate** | to-infinitive |  | growth |  | the suburbs |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent growth=Patient |
| 3 | **demolish** |  |  | the old city walls |  |  |  |  | nom demolition «event transitive»: of=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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