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title: Rare for the Arab world, women held more than 20% of seats in the co… — Tunisia · tree and pragmatics
description: Rare for the Arab world, women held more than 20% of seats in the country's pre-revolution bicameral parliament. Who acts: Rare women. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tunisia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tunisia, sentence 243

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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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Rare for the Arab world, women held more than 20% of seats in the country's pre-revolution bicameral parliament.

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**Who acts:** Rare women · **What happens:** hold · **To what, where:** pre-revolution

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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 (Rare women), 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:243
# text = Rare for the Arab world, women held more than 20% of seats in the country's pre-revolution bicameral parliament.
1	Rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	11	advmod	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	pre-revolution	pre-revolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
20	bicameral	bicameral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past | Rare women |  |  | the country's pre-revolution  bicameral parliament |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent %=Theme in pre-revolution=Location |

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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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