Algiers, sentence 100
From Wikipedia, «Algiers», 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.
Settlers of European descent marked a majority of the city's population, some constituted a minority of "Pieds-noirs" who were granted French citizenship and rights under the Crémieux Decree.
Who acts: Settlers · What happens: mark, constitute, grant · To what, where: majority, some, Pieds noirs
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: who acts (Settlers), 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 | Settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 marked | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 descent | case |
| 3 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 descent | amod |
| 4 | descent | descent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Settlers | nmod |
| 5 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 majority | det |
| 7 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 marked | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 population | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 city | det |
| 10 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 population | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 city | case |
| 12 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 majority | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 constituted | punct |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 constituted | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | constituted | constitute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 marked | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 minority | det |
| 17 | minority | minority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 constituted | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 noirs | case |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Pieds | punct |
| 20 | Pieds | Pieds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 noirs | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Pieds | punct |
| 22 | noirs | noir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 minority | nmod |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 noirs | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 granted | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 granted | aux:pass |
| 26 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 noirs | acl:relcl |
| 27 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 citizenship | amod |
| 28 | citizenship | citizenship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 granted | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 rights | cc |
| 30 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 citizenship | conj |
| 31 | under | under | ADP | _ | 34 Decree | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Decree | det |
| 33 | Crémieux | Crémieux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Decree | compound |
| 34 | Decree | Decree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 rights | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 marked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | past | Settlers of European descent | a majority of the city's population | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent majority=Destination | ||||
| 2 | constitute | participle · passive | some | a minority of Pieds noirs obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grant | past · passive | Pieds noirs | French citizenship and rights under the Crémieux Decree obj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal citizenship=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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