Algeria, sentence 337
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.
Algeria's government has been described as authoritarian, and elected politicians have relatively little sway over affairs in the country.
Who acts: elected politicians · What happens: describe, elect, have · To what, where: government, little sway, affairs
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 (elected politicians), 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 | Algeria | Algeria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 government | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Algeria | case |
| 3 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 described | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 described | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 described | aux:pass |
| 6 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 authoritarian | case |
| 8 | authoritarian | authoritarian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 described | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 have | cc |
| 11 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 politicians | amod |
| 12 | politicians | politician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 described | conj |
| 14 | relatively | relatively | ADV | _ | 15 little | advmod |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sway | amod |
| 16 | sway | sway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 affairs | case |
| 18 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sway | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 country | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 country | det |
| 21 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 affairs | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 described | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present · perfect · passive | Algeria's government | as authoritarian | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as authoritarian=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | elect | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | have | present | elected politicians | little sway | affairs in the country | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sway=Patient |
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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