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# Tunisia, sentence 335

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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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Tunisian Arabic, known as Tounsi, is the national, vernacular variety of Arabic used by the public.

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**Who acts:** Tunisian · **What happens:** know, be, use · **To what, where:** Tunisian, national vernacular variety

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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 (Tunisian), 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:335
# text = Tunisian Arabic, known as Tounsi, is the national, vernacular variety of Arabic used by the public.
1	Tunisian	Tunisian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
2	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Tounsi	Tounsi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	vernacular	vernacular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	variety	variety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	public	public	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  | Tunisian *not said here* |  |  |  | as Tounsi | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as tounsi=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Tunisian | the national vernacular variety |  |  |  | of Arabic | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | participle |  | the national vernacular variety *not said here* |  |  |  | by the public | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=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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