--- title: Despite his best efforts, the Italians remained neutral as they did… — Tunisia · tree and pragmatics description: Despite his best efforts, the Italians remained neutral as they did not want to ruin relations with NATO ally France, nor did they want to hamper any possibility of future relations with Tunisia as it served as a key part of the Mediterranean. Who acts: Italians, possibility. 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Despite his best efforts, the Italians remained neutral as they did not want to ruin relations with NATO ally France, nor did they want to hamper any possibility of future relations with Tunisia as it served as a key part of the Mediterranean. **Who acts:** Italians, possibility · **What happens:** remain, not want, ruin, do, want, hamper · **To what, where:** relations, possibility 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 (Italians, possibility), 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:Tunisia:136 # text = Despite his best efforts, the Italians remained neutral as they did not want to ruin relations with NATO ally France, nor did they want to hamper any possibility of future relations with Tunisia as it served as a key part of the Mediterranean. 1 Despite despite ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 amod _ _ 4 efforts effort NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Italians Italian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 remained remain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 neutral neutral ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 ruin ruin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 relations relation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 NATO NATO PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 ally ally NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:desc _ _ 21 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 24 cc _ _ 24 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 hamper hamper VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 30 det _ _ 30 possibility possibility NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 future future ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 relations relation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 Tunisia Tunisia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 36 as as SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 served serve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 39 as as ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 key key ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 Mediterranean Mediterranean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remain** | past | the Italians | | | | | despite Bourguiba's best efforts; neutral *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **want** | past · do-support | Italians *= italian* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **ruin** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Italians *= italian* *not said here* | relations | | | | with France NATO ally | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent relation=Patient with france=Instrument | | 4 | **do** | past | the Italians *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **want** | present | Italians *= italian* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **hamper** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Italians *= italian* *not said here* | any possibility of future relations with Tunisia | | | | | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer possibility=Eventuality | | 7 | **serve** | past | possibility | | | | | as a key part of the Mediterranean | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as part=Attribute | 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, «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. - ← previous: [sentence 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tunisia/135/) - next →: [sentence 137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tunisia/137/) - ↑ back to [Tunisia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tunisia/)