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title: The French army, drawing lessons from Indochina, achieved significan… — Algeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The French army, drawing lessons from Indochina, achieved significant military successes, notably with the Morice Line and General Challe's campaigns, but faced growing political frustration. Who acts: French army, Challe. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Algeria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Algeria, sentence 232

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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 French army, drawing lessons from Indochina, achieved significant military successes, notably with the Morice Line and General Challe's campaigns, but faced growing political frustration.

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**Who acts:** French army, Challe · **What happens:** draw, achieve, face, grow, campaign · **To what, where:** lessons, Indochina, significant military successes, political frustration

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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 (French army, Challe), 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:232
# text = The French army, drawing lessons from Indochina, achieved significant military successes, notably with the Morice Line and General Challe's campaigns, but faced growing political frustration.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Indochina	Indochina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	achieved	achieve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	successes	success	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	notably	notably	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Morice	Morice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Line	Line	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:desc	_	_
22	Challe	Challe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	campaigns	campaign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	faced	face	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
28	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	xcomp	_	_
29	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	frustration	frustration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | gerund | the French army *not said here* | lessons |  | Indochina |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent lesson=Theme from indochina=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **achieve** | past | the French army | significant military successes |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent success=Eventuality |
| 3 | **face** | past | the French army *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **grow** | gerund | the French army *not said here* | political frustration |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location frustration=Theme |
| 5 | **campaign** |  | Challe  General |  |  |  |  |  | nom campaign «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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