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title: Beginning in early antiquity, Tunisia was inhabited by the indigenou… — Tunisia · tree and pragmatics
description: Beginning in early antiquity, Tunisia was inhabited by the indigenous Berbers. Who acts: indigenous Berbers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tunisia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tunisia, sentence 13

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From Wikipedia, [«Tunisia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunisia), 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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Beginning in early antiquity, Tunisia was inhabited by the indigenous Berbers.

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**Who acts:** indigenous Berbers · **What happens:** begin, inhabit · **To what, where:** early antiquity, Tunisia

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tunisia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (indigenous Berbers), 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:Tunisia:13
# text = Beginning in early antiquity, Tunisia was inhabited by the indigenous Berbers.
1	Beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	antiquity	antiquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	Tunisia	Tunisia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Berbers	Berber	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | gerund | the indigenous Berbers *not said here* |  |  | early antiquity |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **inhabit** | past · passive | the indigenous Berbers | Tunisia |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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, «Tunisia», 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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