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title: In 2011, the Tunisian Revolution, which was triggered by dissatisfac… — Tunisia · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2011, the Tunisian Revolution, which was triggered by dissatisfaction with the lack of freedom and democracy under the 24-year rule of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, overthrew his regime and catalyzed the broader Arab Spring movement across the region. Who acts: dissatisfaction, Zine El. A se
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# Tunisia, sentence 24

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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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In 2011, the Tunisian Revolution, which was triggered by dissatisfaction with the lack of freedom and democracy under the 24-year rule of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, overthrew his regime and catalyzed the broader Arab Spring movement across the region.

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**Who acts:** dissatisfaction, Zine El · **What happens:** trigger, overthrow, catalyze, lack, rule · **To what, where:** Tunisian Revolution, 2011, regime, broader Arab Spring movement, region, freedom

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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 (dissatisfaction, Zine El), 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:24
# text = In 2011, the Tunisian Revolution, which was triggered by dissatisfaction with the lack of freedom and democracy under the 24-year rule of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, overthrew his regime and catalyzed the broader Arab Spring movement across the region.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2011	2011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Tunisian	Tunisian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Revolution	Revolution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	triggered	trigger	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	dissatisfaction	dissatisfaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	democracy	democracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	under	under	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:desc	_	_
28	Zine	Zine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	El	El	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	Abidine	Abidine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
32	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	overthrew	overthrow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	regime	regime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	catalyzed	catalyze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
40	broader	broad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	43	amod	_	_
41	Arab	Arab	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	43	compound	_	_
42	Spring	Spring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
44	across	across	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trigger** | past · passive | dissatisfaction with the lack of freedom and democracy under the year rule of Zine El | the Tunisian Revolution |  | 2011 |  | which *nsubj:pass* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient |
| 2 | **overthrow** | past |  | Tunisia's regime |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **catalyze** | participle |  | the broader Arab Spring movement |  | the region |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lack** |  |  | freedom and democracy under the year rule of Zine El |  |  |  |  | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **rule** |  | Zine El |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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