Algiers, sentence 214
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.
One tablet records that in 1631 two Algerine pirate crews landed in Ireland, sacked Baltimore, and enslaved its inhabitants.
Who acts: One tablet records · What happens: land, sack, enslave · To what, where: 1631, Baltimore, inhabitants
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 (One tablet records), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 records | nummod |
| 2 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 records | compound |
| 3 | records | record | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 landed | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 landed | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 1631 | case |
| 6 | 1631 | 1631 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 landed | obl |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 crews | nummod |
| 8 | Algerine | Algerine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 crews | compound |
| 9 | pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crews | compound |
| 10 | crews | crew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 landed | nsubj |
| 11 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Ireland | case |
| 13 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 landed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sacked | punct |
| 15 | sacked | sack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 landed | conj |
| 16 | Baltimore | Baltimore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sacked | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 enslaved | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 enslaved | cc |
| 19 | enslaved | enslave | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 landed | conj |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 inhabitants | nmod:poss |
| 21 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 enslaved | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 landed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | past | One tablet records | 1631 | in Ireland; that nsubj; two Algerine pirate crews nsubj | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in 1631=Destination | |||
| 2 | sack | past | One tablet records not said here | Baltimore | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baltimore=Theme | ||||
| 3 | enslave | past | One tablet records not said here | source's inhabitants | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhabitant=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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Algiers», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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