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title: In September 2022 Tunisian president Kais Saied signed Decree Law 54… — Tunisia · tree and pragmatics
description: In September 2022 Tunisian president Kais Saied signed Decree Law 54, which purported to combat "false information and rumours" on the Internet. Who acts: Kais, Decree. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tunisia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tunisia, sentence 441

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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 September 2022 Tunisian president Kais Saied signed Decree Law 54, which purported to combat "false information and rumours" on the Internet.

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**Who acts:** Kais, Decree · **What happens:** sign, purport, combat · **To what, where:** false information, Internet

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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 (Kais, Decree), 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:441
# text = In September 2022 Tunisian president Kais Saied signed Decree Law 54, which purported to combat "false information and rumours" on the Internet.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	Tunisian	Tunisian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Kais	Kais	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Saied	Saied	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	signed	sign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Decree	Decree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	Law	Law	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	54	54	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	purported	purport	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	combat	combat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	rumours	rumour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Internet	internet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sign** | past | Kais  Tunisian president |  |  |  | september |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **purport** | past | Decree |  |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **combat** | to-infinitive | Decree *not said here* | false information and rumours |  | the Internet |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent information=Co-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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