Algiers, sentence 40
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.
In 435 AD, the Vandal Kingdom took control of northern Africa along the coasts of today's Tunisia and Algeria.
Who acts: Vandal Kingdom · What happens: take · To what, where: control, 435 AD
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 (Vandal Kingdom), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 AD | case |
| 2 | 435 | 435 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 AD | nummod |
| 3 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 AD | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Kingdom | det |
| 6 | Vandal | Vandal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Kingdom | compound |
| 7 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Africa | case |
| 11 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Africa | amod |
| 12 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 control | nmod |
| 13 | along | along | ADP | _ | 15 coasts | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 coasts | det |
| 15 | coasts | coast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 took | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Tunisia | case |
| 17 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Tunisia | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 today | case |
| 19 | Tunisia | Tunisia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 coasts | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Algeria | cc |
| 21 | Algeria | Algeria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Tunisia | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Vandal Kingdom | control of northern Africa | 435 AD | along the coasts of today's Tunisia and Algeria | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent control=Value in ad=Location |
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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