Algiers, sentence 67
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Barbarossa lost Algiers in 1524 but regained it with the 1529 Capture of Peñón of Algiers, and then formally invited the Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent to accept sovereignty over the territory and to annex Algiers to the Ottoman Empire.
Who acts: Barbarossa · What happens: lose, regain, invite, accept, annex, capture · To what, where: Algiers, 1524, Spanish, Sultan Suleiman, sovereignty, territory
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 (Barbarossa), 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 | Barbarossa | Barbarossa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Algiers | Algier | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 lost | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1524 | case |
| 5 | 1524 | 1524 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 lost | obl |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 regained | cc |
| 7 | regained | regain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lost | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 regained | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 Capture | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Capture | det |
| 11 | 1529 | 1529 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 Capture | nummod |
| 12 | Capture | capture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 regained | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Peñón | case |
| 14 | Peñón | Peñón | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Capture | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Algiers | case |
| 16 | Algiers | Algier | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 Peñón | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 invited | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 invited | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 invited | advmod |
| 20 | formally | formally | ADV | _ | 21 invited | advmod |
| 21 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lost | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Suleiman | det |
| 23 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Suleiman | compound |
| 24 | Suleiman | Suleiman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 invited | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Magnificent | det |
| 26 | Magnificent | Magnificent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Suleiman | appos |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 accept | mark |
| 28 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 invited | advcl |
| 29 | sovereignty | sovereignty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 accept | obj |
| 30 | over | over | ADP | _ | 32 territory | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 territory | det |
| 32 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 accept | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 annex | cc |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 annex | mark |
| 35 | annex | annex | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 accept | conj |
| 36 | Algiers | Algiers | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 annex | obj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 Empire | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Empire | det |
| 39 | Ottoman | Ottoman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Empire | compound |
| 40 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 annex | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | Barbarossa | Algiers | 1524 | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent algier=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | regain | past | Barbarossa not said here | Spanish | with the 1529 Capture of Peñón of Algiers | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | invite | past | Barbarossa not said here | the Sultan Suleiman | then | formally property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suleiman=Recipient | ||
| 4 | accept | to-infinitive | Barbarossa not said here | sovereignty | the territory | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sovereignty=Theme | |||
| 5 | annex | to-infinitive | Barbarossa not said here | Algiers | to the Ottoman Empire | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent algiers=Theme | |||
| 6 | capture | Peñón of Algiers | nom capture «act transitive»: of=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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