Algiers, sentence 111
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Algiers remains marked by this battle, which was characterized by merciless fighting between FLN forces which carried out a guerrilla campaign against the French military and police and pro-French Algerian soldiers, and the French Army which responded with a bloody repression, torture and blanket terrorism against the native population.
Who acts: Algiers, merciless fighting, French Army · What happens: remain, mark, characterize, carry out, respond · To what, where: battle, guerrilla campaign
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 (Algiers, merciless fighting, French Army), 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 | Algiers | Algiers | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 remains | nsubj |
| 2 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 remains | xcomp |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 battle | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 battle | det |
| 6 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 marked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 characterized | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 characterized | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 characterized | aux:pass |
| 10 | characterized | characterize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 battle | acl:relcl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 fighting | case |
| 12 | merciless | merciless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fighting | amod |
| 13 | fighting | fighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 characterized | obl:agent |
| 14 | between | between | ADP | _ | 16 forces | case |
| 15 | FLN | FLN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 forces | compound |
| 16 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fighting | nmod |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 carried | nsubj |
| 18 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fighting | acl:relcl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 carried | compound:prt |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 campaign | det |
| 21 | guerrilla | guerrilla | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 campaign | compound |
| 22 | campaign | campaign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carried | obj |
| 23 | against | against | ADP | _ | 28 police | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 police | det |
| 25 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 police | amod |
| 26 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 police | amod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 police | cc |
| 28 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 campaign | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 soldiers | cc |
| 30 | pro-French | pro-french | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 soldiers | amod |
| 31 | Algerian | Algerian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 soldiers | compound |
| 32 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 police | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 responded | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 responded | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Army | det |
| 36 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Army | amod |
| 37 | Army | Army | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 responded | nsubj |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 responded | nsubj |
| 39 | responded | respond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 police | conj |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 repression | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 repression | det |
| 42 | bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 repression | amod |
| 43 | repression | repression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 responded | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 torture | punct |
| 45 | torture | torture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 repression | conj |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 terrorism | cc |
| 47 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 terrorism | compound |
| 48 | terrorism | terrorism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 repression | conj |
| 49 | against | against | ADP | _ | 52 population | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 population | det |
| 51 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 population | amod |
| 52 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 terrorism | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | present | Algiers | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mark | participle | Algiers not said here | by this battle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent by battle=Destination | ||||
| 3 | characterize | past · passive | merciless fighting between FLN forces | this battle | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry out | past | merciless fighting between FLN forces | a guerrilla campaign | against the French military police and pro-French Algerian soldiers | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent campaign=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | respond speech: other | past | the French Army | with a bloody repression and torture and blanket terrorism against the native population; the French military police and pro-French Algerian soldiers nsubj | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with repression=Eventuality |
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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