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title: The Almoravids' successors were the Almohads (Al-Muwahhidun), meanin… — Algeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The Almoravids' successors were the Almohads (Al-Muwahhidun), meaning "Unitarians"; a reformist movement founded by Muhammad ibn Tumart, a Masmuda Berber who proclaimed himself the Mahdi. Who acts: successors, Almohads, Masmuda Berber. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Algeria» with its dependency tree and
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# Algeria, sentence 148

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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' successors were the Almohads (Al-Muwahhidun), meaning "Unitarians"; a reformist movement founded by Muhammad ibn Tumart, a Masmuda Berber who proclaimed himself the Mahdi.

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**Who acts:** successors, Almohads, Masmuda Berber · **What happens:** be, mean, found, proclaim · **To what, where:** Almohads, Unitarians, reformist movement

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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 (successors, Almohads, Masmuda Berber), 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:148
# text = The Almoravids' successors were the Almohads (Al-Muwahhidun), meaning "Unitarians"; a reformist movement founded by Muhammad ibn Tumart, a Masmuda Berber who proclaimed himself the Mahdi.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Almoravids	almoravid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	successors	successor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Almohads	Almohads	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Muwahhidun	Muwahhidun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Unitarians	Unitarian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	reformist	reformist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
22	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	Muhammad	Muhammad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	ibn	Ibn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl:agent	_	_
26	Tumart	Tumart	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Masmuda	Masmuda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Berber	berber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	32	obj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Mahdi	Mahdi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the Almoravids's successors | the Almohads and a reformist movement |  |  |  | Al *appos*; a reformist movement *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | gerund | the Almohads and a reformist movement *not said here* | Unitarians |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent unitarian=Topic |
| 3 | **found** | participle |  | a reformist movement *not said here* |  |  |  | Muhammad ibn *obl:agent* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **proclaim** | past | a Masmuda Berber | Almohads |  |  |  | the Mahdi *obj* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme mahdi=Attribute |

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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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