Algiers, sentence 238

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Villa Abd-el-Tif, former residence of the dey, was used during the French period, to accommodate French artists, chiefly painters, and winners of the Abd-el-Tif prize, among whom Maurice Boitel, for a while of two years.

What happens: use, accommodate · To what, where: Villa, French artists

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: 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	Villa	Villa	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 used	nsubj:pass
2	Abd	Abd	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Villa	flat
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 el	punct
4	el	el	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Villa	appos
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Tif	punct
6	Tif	Tif	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 el	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 residence	punct
8	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 residence	amod
9	residence	residence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Tif	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 dey	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dey	det
12	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 residence	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Villa	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 used	aux:pass
15	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	during	during	ADP	_	19 period	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 period	det
18	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 period	amod
19	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 used	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 accommodate	punct
21	to	to	PART	_	22 accommodate	mark
22	accommodate	accommodate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 used	parataxis
23	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 artists	amod
24	artists	artist	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 accommodate	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 painters	punct
26	chiefly	chiefly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 painters	amod
27	painters	painter	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 artists	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 winners	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 winners	cc
30	winners	winner	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 used	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	38 prize	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 prize	det
33	Abd	Abd	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 prize	nsubj
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 Abd	punct
35	el	el	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 prize	nsubj
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 prize	punct
37	Tif	Tif	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 prize	compound
38	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 winners	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 whom	punct
40	among	among	ADP	_	41 whom	case
41	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 prize	nmod
42	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 whom	nsubj
43	Boitel	Boitel	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Maurice	flat
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 while	punct
45	for	for	ADP	_	47 while	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 while	det
47	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 Maurice	appos
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 years	case
49	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 years	nummod
50	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 while	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past · passive		Villa			during the French period	winners of the Tif prize Abd el among winners of the Tif prize Abd el among winners obl	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	accommodate	to-infinitive		French artists and chiefly painters					vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent artist=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 238