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title: Prominent historian Abou el-Kacem Saadallah refers to the Regency as… — Algeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Prominent historian Abou el-Kacem Saadallah refers to the Regency as the "Algerian Ancien régime". Who acts: Prominent historian. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Algeria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Algeria, sentence 190

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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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Prominent historian Abou el-Kacem Saadallah refers to the Regency as the "Algerian Ancien régime".

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**Who acts:** Prominent historian · **What happens:** refer

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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 (Prominent historian), 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:190
# text = Prominent historian Abou el-Kacem Saadallah refers to the Regency as the "Algerian Ancien régime".
1	Prominent	prominent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	historian	historian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	Abou	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	el	el	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Kacem	Kacem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	Saadallah	Saadallah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	refers	refer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Regency	Regency	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Algerian	Algerian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Ancien	Ancien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	régime	régime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | present | Prominent historian about el Kacem |  |  |  |  | to the Regency; as the Ancien régime | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to regency=Co-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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