Algiers, sentence 98
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.
Plans to transform the face of the city to match French standards and architectural trends began shortly after obtaining the city.
Who acts: Plans · What happens: transform, match, begin, obtain · To what, where: face, French standards, city
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 (Plans), 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 | Plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 began | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 transform | mark |
| 3 | transform | transform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Plans | acl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 face | det |
| 5 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 transform | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 city | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 city | det |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 face | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 match | mark |
| 10 | match | match | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 transform | advcl |
| 11 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 standards | amod |
| 12 | standards | standard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 match | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 trends | cc |
| 14 | architectural | architectural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 trends | amod |
| 15 | trends | trend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 standards | conj |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 16 began | advmod |
| 18 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 19 obtaining | mark |
| 19 | obtaining | obtain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 began | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 city | det |
| 21 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 obtaining | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transform | to-infinitive | Plans not said here | the face of the city | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | ||||
| 2 | match | to-infinitive | Plans not said here | French standards and architectural trends | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent standard=Patient | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | Plans | shortly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | obtain | gerund | Plans not said here | the city | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset city=Theme |
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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