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title: In the last years of the Hafsid dynasty, Spain seized many of the co… — Tunisia · tree and pragmatics
description: In the last years of the Hafsid dynasty, Spain seized many of the coastal cities, but these were recovered by the Ottoman Empire. Who acts: Spain, Ottoman Empire. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tunisia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tunisia, sentence 94

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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 the last years of the Hafsid dynasty, Spain seized many of the coastal cities, but these were recovered by the Ottoman Empire.

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**Who acts:** Spain, Ottoman Empire · **What happens:** seize, recover · **To what, where:** many, these

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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 (Spain, Ottoman Empire), 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:94
# text = In the last years of the Hafsid dynasty, Spain seized many of the coastal cities, but these were recovered by the Ottoman Empire.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Hafsid	Hafsid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	recovered	recover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Ottoman	Ottoman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | Spain | many of the coastal cities |  |  | year |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme |
| 2 | **recover** | past · passive | the Ottoman Empire | these |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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