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title: The Almoravids (Al-Murabitun), a puritanical religious-military move… — Algeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The Almoravids (Al-Murabitun), a puritanical religious-military movement of Sanhaja Berbers (mainly the Lamtuna tribe) from the Sahara in Mauritania, was founded in the mid-11th century by the Maliki scholar Abd Allah ibn Yasin. Who acts: Maliki scholar. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Algeria» with its 
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# Algeria, sentence 141

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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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The Almoravids (Al-Murabitun), a puritanical religious-military movement of Sanhaja Berbers (mainly the Lamtuna tribe) from the Sahara in Mauritania, was founded in the mid-11th century by the Maliki scholar Abd Allah ibn Yasin.

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**Who acts:** Maliki scholar · **What happens:** found, move · **To what, where:** Almoravids, Sanhaja Berbers, Sahara

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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 (Maliki scholar), 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:141
# text = The Almoravids (Al-Murabitun), a puritanical religious-military movement of Sanhaja Berbers (mainly the Lamtuna tribe) from the Sahara in Mauritania, was founded in the mid-11th century by the Maliki scholar Abd Allah ibn Yasin.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Almoravids	Almoravid	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Murabitun	Murabitun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
10	puritanical	puritanical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
11	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Sanhaja	Sanhaja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Berbers	Berber	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Lamtuna	Lamtuna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Mauritania	Mauritania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	mid-11th	mid-11th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	35	amod	_	_
35	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	Maliki	Maliki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	scholar	scholar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
40	Abd	Abd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
41	Allah	Allah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	flat	_	_
42	ibn	Ibn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	flat	_	_
43	Yasin	Yasin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | past · passive | the Maliki scholar | the Almoravids |  |  | century |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **move** |  |  | Sanhaja Berbers |  | the Sahara in Mauritania |  |  | nom movement «act transitive»: of=patient from=place |

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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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