Algiers, sentence 74
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.
The United States fought two wars (the First and Second Barbary Wars) over Algiers' attacks on shipping.
Who acts: United States, Algiers · What happens: fight, attack · To what, where: two wars, shipping
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 (United States, Algiers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 States | det |
| 2 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 States | amod |
| 3 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 fought | nsubj |
| 4 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 wars | nummod |
| 6 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fought | obj |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 Wars | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Wars | det |
| 9 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 Wars | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Second | cc |
| 11 | Second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 First | conj |
| 12 | Barbary | Barbary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Wars | compound |
| 13 | Wars | War | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 wars | appos |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 Wars | punct |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 attacks | case |
| 16 | Algiers | Algier | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 attacks | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 16 Algiers | case |
| 18 | attacks | attack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fought | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 shipping | case |
| 20 | shipping | shipping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 attacks | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | the United States | two wars | over Algiers's attacks on shipping | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent war=Co-Agent over attack=Theme | |||
| 2 | attack | Algiers | shipping | nom attack «act transitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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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