Algiers, sentence 29
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.
Academic discussions often omit that the name that both Arabic- and Berber-speaking inhabitants have always given to their city is Dzayer.
Who acts: Academic discussions, Arabic, that · What happens: omit, speak, give, be · To what, where: name, speaking inhabitants, city, Dzayer · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Academic discussions, Arabic, that), 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 | Academic | academic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 discussions | amod |
| 2 | discussions | discussion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 omit | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 omit | advmod |
| 4 | omit | omit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 name | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 name | det |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 omit | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 Dzayer | nsubj |
| 9 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 Arabic | det |
| 10 | Arabic | Arabic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Dzayer | nsubj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 given | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 given | cc |
| 13 | Berber | berber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 speaking | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Berber | punct |
| 15 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 inhabitants | amod |
| 16 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 given | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 given | aux |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 given | advmod |
| 19 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Arabic | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 city | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 city | nmod:poss |
| 22 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 given | obl |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 Dzayer | cop |
| 24 | Dzayer | Dzayer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 name | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 omit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | omit | present | Academic discussions | the name | often property | vn exclude-107.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | Berber compound | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give | present · perfect · passive | both Arabic not said here | speaking inhabitants | inhabitants's city | always property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to city=Recipient | ||
| 4 | is a | present | that | Dzayer | both Arabic nsubj | tree rules |
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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