Algiers, sentence 140
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.
Algiers Province, the administrative area that includes the city's urban and suburban centers covers 1,190 km2 (460 sq mi).
Who acts: administrative area, Algiers · What happens: include, cover · To what, where: urban centers, 1,190
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 (administrative area, Algiers), 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 | 16 covers | nsubj |
| 2 | Province | Province | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Algiers | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 area | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 area | det |
| 5 | administrative | administrative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 area | amod |
| 6 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 covers | nsubj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 includes | nsubj |
| 8 | includes | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 area | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 city | det |
| 10 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 centers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 city | case |
| 12 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 centers | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 suburban | cc |
| 14 | suburban | suburban | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 urban | conj |
| 15 | centers | center | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 includes | obj |
| 16 | covers | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | 1,190 | 1,190 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 covers | obj |
| 18 | km2 | km2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 1,190 | list |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 mi | punct |
| 20 | 460 | 460 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 mi | nummod |
| 21 | sq | sq | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 mi | amod |
| 22 | mi | mi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 km2 | appos |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 mi | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 covers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | present | the administrative area | the city's urban centers | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent center=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cover | present | Algiers | 1,190 | the administrative area nsubj | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent 1,190=Destination |
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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