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title: Most Algerians identify as Arabs, while Berbers form a sizeable mino… — Algeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Most Algerians identify as Arabs, while Berbers form a sizeable minority. Who acts: Most Algerians, Berbers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Algeria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Algeria, sentence 19

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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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Most Algerians identify as Arabs, while Berbers form a sizeable minority.

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**Who acts:** Most Algerians, Berbers · **What happens:** identify, form · **To what, where:** sizeable minority

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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 (Most Algerians, Berbers), 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:19
# text = Most Algerians identify as Arabs, while Berbers form a sizeable minority.
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	Algerians	Algerian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	identify	identify	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Arabs	Arab	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	Berbers	berber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	sizeable	sizeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	minority	minority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | present | Most Algerians |  |  |  |  | as Arabs | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent as arab=Attribute |
| 2 | **form** | present | Berbers | a sizeable minority |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location minority=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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