Algeria, sentence 190
From Wikipedia, «Algeria», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Prominent historian Abou el-Kacem Saadallah refers to the Regency as the "Algerian Ancien régime".
Who acts: Prominent historian · What happens: refer
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 (Prominent historian), 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 | Prominent | prominent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 historian | amod |
| 2 | historian | historian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 refers | nsubj |
| 3 | Abou | about | ADP | _ | 6 Kacem | case |
| 4 | el | el | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Kacem | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 el | punct |
| 6 | Kacem | Kacem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 historian | nmod |
| 7 | Saadallah | Saadallah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Kacem | flat |
| 8 | refers | refer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Regency | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Regency | det |
| 11 | Regency | Regency | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 refers | obl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 régime | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 régime | det |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 régime | punct |
| 15 | Algerian | Algerian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Ancien | compound |
| 16 | Ancien | Ancien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 régime | compound |
| 17 | régime | régime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 refers | obl |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 régime | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 refers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refer | present | Prominent historian about el Kacem | to the Regency; as the Ancien régime | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to regency=Co-Theme |
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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