Algiers, sentence 139

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.

The city's downtown sits at an elevation of 2 m (at the Algiers Central Post Office), while it averages 45 m across the city's metropolitan area, and tops at 407 m on the Bouzaréah peak.

Who acts: downtown · What happens: sit, average, elevate · To what, where: tops, elevation, 45 m, metropolitan area, 2 m

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 (downtown), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 city	det
2	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 downtown	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 city	case
4	downtown	downtown	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sits	nsubj
5	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 elevation	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 elevation	det
8	elevation	elevation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sits	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 m	case
10	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 m	nummod
11	m	m	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 elevation	nmod
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 Office	punct
13	at	at	ADP	_	18 Office	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Office	det
15	Algiers	Algiers	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Office	nsubj
16	Central	Central	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Office	amod
17	Post	Post	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Office	compound
18	Office	Office	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 m	appos
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 Office	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 averages	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 averages	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 averages	nsubj
23	averages	average	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sits	conj
24	45	45	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 m	nummod
25	m	m	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 averages	obj
26	across	across	ADP	_	31 area	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 city	det
28	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 area	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 city	case
30	metropolitan	metropolitan	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 area	compound
31	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 averages	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 tops	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 tops	cc
34	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sits	obl
35	at	at	ADP	_	37 m	case
36	407	407	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	37 m	nummod
37	m	M	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 tops	nmod
38	on	on	ADP	_	41 peak	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 peak	det
40	Bouzaréah	Bouzaréah	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 peak	compound
41	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 m	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sits	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sit	present	the city's downtown	tops at 407 m on the Bouzaréah peak	a elevation of 2 m	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at elevation=Location
2	average	present	downtown	45 m	the city's metropolitan area	vn multiply-108-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent m=Theme
3	elevate			2 m		nom elevation «event transitive»: of=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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Algiers, sentence 139