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title: Relations with France deteriorated after the 1827 Fly-Whisk Incident… — Algeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Relations with France deteriorated after the 1827 Fly-Whisk Incident, when Dey Hussein struck the French consul during a dispute over debts and grain payments. Who acts: Relations, Dey. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Algeria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Algeria, sentence 186

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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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Relations with France deteriorated after the 1827 Fly-Whisk Incident, when Dey Hussein struck the French consul during a dispute over debts and grain payments.

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**Who acts:** Relations, Dey · **What happens:** deteriorate, strike · **To what, where:** French consul, debts

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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 (Relations, Dey), 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:186
# text = Relations with France deteriorated after the 1827 Fly-Whisk Incident, when Dey Hussein struck the French consul during a dispute over debts and grain payments.
1	Relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	deteriorated	deteriorate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
7	1827	1827	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nsubj	_	_
8	Fly	Fly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Whisk	whisk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	16	mark	_	_
14	Dey	Dey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	Hussein	Hussein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	consul	consul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	during	during	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	dispute	dispute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	debts	debt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	payments	payment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deteriorate** | past | Relations with France |  |  |  | after the Fly Whisk Incident |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **strike** | past | Dey | the French consul |  | debts and grain payments | during a dispute |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consul=Patient |

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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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