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title: The greatest threat to Almohad rule in Tunisia was the Banu Ghaniya,… — Tunisia · tree and pragmatics
description: The greatest threat to Almohad rule in Tunisia was the Banu Ghaniya, relatives of the Almoravids, who from their base in Mallorca tried to restore Almoravid rule over the Maghreb. Who acts: greatest threat, Almoravids. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tunisia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tunisia, sentence 88

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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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The greatest threat to Almohad rule in Tunisia was the Banu Ghaniya, relatives of the Almoravids, who from their base in Mallorca tried to restore Almoravid rule over the Maghreb.

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**Who acts:** greatest threat, Almoravids · **What happens:** be, try, restore · **To what, where:** Banu Ghaniya, Almoravid rule, Maghreb

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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 (greatest threat, Almoravids), 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:88
# text = The greatest threat to Almohad rule in Tunisia was the Banu Ghaniya, relatives of the Almoravids, who from their base in Mallorca tried to restore Almoravid rule over the Maghreb.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	threat	threat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Almohad	Almohad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Tunisia	Tunisia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Banu	Banu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Ghaniya	Ghaniya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Almoravids	Almoravid	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Mallorca	Mallorca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	restore	restore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	Almoravid	Almoravid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	over	over	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Maghreb	Maghreb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the greatest threat to Almohad rule in Tunisia | the Banu Ghaniya |  |  |  | relatives of the Almoravids *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **try** | past | the Almoravids |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **restore** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Almoravids *not said here* | Almoravid rule |  | the Maghreb |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent rule=Theme |

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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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