Algiers, sentence 10
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During World War II, it briefly functioned as the administrative center of Free France from 1942 to 1944 before returning to French colonial rule.
What happens: function, return · To what, where: history, 1942
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Algiers». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 War | case |
| 2 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 War | compound |
| 3 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 functioned | obl |
| 4 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 3 War | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 War | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 functioned | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | briefly | briefly | ADV | _ | 8 functioned | advmod |
| 8 | functioned | function | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 center | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 center | det |
| 11 | administrative | administrative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 center | amod |
| 12 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 functioned | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 France | case |
| 14 | Free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 France | amod |
| 15 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 center | nmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 1942 | case |
| 17 | 1942 | 1942 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 functioned | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 1944 | case |
| 19 | 1944 | 1944 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 1942 | nmod |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 21 returning | mark |
| 21 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 functioned | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 rule | case |
| 23 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 rule | amod |
| 24 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 rule | amod |
| 25 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 returning | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 functioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | function | participle · passive | history | 1942 to 1944 | during World War | as the administrative center of Free France; briefly property | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Attribute | ||
| 2 | return | gerund | to French colonial rule result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to rule=Result |
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