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title: A coalition led by the Berber leader Kusayla ambushed and killed Oqb… — Algeria · tree and pragmatics
description: A coalition led by the Berber leader Kusayla ambushed and killed Oqba at the Battle of Tahouda in 683. Who acts: coalition. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Algeria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Algeria, sentence 100

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From Wikipedia, [«Algeria»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeria), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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A coalition led by the Berber leader Kusayla ambushed and killed Oqba at the Battle of Tahouda in 683.

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**Who acts:** coalition · **What happens:** lead, ambush, kill · **To what, where:** coalition, Oqba, Battle

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Algeria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coalition), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Algeria:100
# text = A coalition led by the Berber leader Kusayla ambushed and killed Oqba at the Battle of Tahouda in 683.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coalition	coalition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Berber	berber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	Kusayla	Kusayla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	ambushed	ambush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	Oqba	Oqba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Battle	Battle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Tahouda	Tahouda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	683	683	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | participle |  | a coalition *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Berber leader | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by leader=Destination |
| 2 | **ambush** | past | a coalition |  |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **kill** | past | a coalition *not said here* | Oqba |  | the Battle of Tahouda |  | in 683 | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oqba=Theme |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Algeria», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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