Algeria, sentence 141
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The Almoravids (Al-Murabitun), a puritanical religious-military movement of Sanhaja Berbers (mainly the Lamtuna tribe) from the Sahara in Mauritania, was founded in the mid-11th century by the Maliki scholar Abd Allah ibn Yasin.
Who acts: Maliki scholar · What happens: found, move · To what, where: Almoravids, Sanhaja Berbers, Sahara
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Algeria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maliki scholar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Almoravids | det |
| 2 | Almoravids | Almoravid | PROPN | Number=Plur | 31 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 Al | punct |
| 4 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Almoravids | appos |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Murabitun | punct |
| 6 | Murabitun | Murabitun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Al | flat |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 Al | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 movement | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 movement | det |
| 10 | puritanical | puritanical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 movement | amod |
| 11 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 movement | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 religious | punct |
| 13 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 movement | amod |
| 14 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Almoravids | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Berbers | case |
| 16 | Sanhaja | Sanhaja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Berbers | compound |
| 17 | Berbers | Berber | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 movement | nmod |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 tribe | punct |
| 19 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 22 tribe | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tribe | det |
| 21 | Lamtuna | Lamtuna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 tribe | compound |
| 22 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Berbers | appos |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 tribe | punct |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 Sahara | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Sahara | det |
| 26 | Sahara | Sahara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 movement | nmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 Mauritania | case |
| 28 | Mauritania | Mauritania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Sahara | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Almoravids | punct |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 founded | aux:pass |
| 31 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 century | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 century | det |
| 34 | mid-11th | mid-11th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 35 century | amod |
| 35 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 founded | obl |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 39 scholar | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 scholar | det |
| 38 | Maliki | Maliki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 scholar | compound |
| 39 | scholar | scholar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 founded | obl |
| 40 | Abd | Abd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 scholar | appos |
| 41 | Allah | Allah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Abd | flat |
| 42 | ibn | Ibn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Abd | flat |
| 43 | Yasin | Yasin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 ibn | flat |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 founded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | past · passive | the Maliki scholar | the Almoravids | century | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | move | Sanhaja Berbers | the Sahara in Mauritania | nom movement «act transitive»: of=patient from=place |
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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