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title: Tensions between Algeria and Morocco in relation to the Western Saha… — Algeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Tensions between Algeria and Morocco in relation to the Western Sahara have been an obstacle to tightening the Arab Maghreb Union, nominally established in 1989, but which has carried little practical weight. Who acts: Tensions. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Algeria» with its dependency tree and pragma
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# Algeria, sentence 362

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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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Tensions between Algeria and Morocco in relation to the Western Sahara have been an obstacle to tightening the Arab Maghreb Union, nominally established in 1989, but which has carried little practical weight.

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**Who acts:** Tensions · **What happens:** be, tighten, establish, carry · **To what, where:** obstacle, Maghreb Union, 1989, little practical weight

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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 (Tensions), 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:362
# text = Tensions between Algeria and Morocco in relation to the Western Sahara have been an obstacle to tightening the Arab Maghreb Union, nominally established in 1989, but which has carried little practical weight.
1	Tensions	tension	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
2	between	between	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Algeria	Algeria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Morocco	Morocco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	relation	relation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	cop	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	obstacle	obstacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	tightening	tighten	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	acl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	Arab	Arab	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Maghreb	Maghreb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	nominally	nominally	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	1989	1989	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
32	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	practical	practical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present · perfect | Tensions between Algeria in relation to the Western Sahara and Morocco | a obstacle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tighten** | gerund |  | the Maghreb Union |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent union=Patient |
| 3 | **establish** | participle | Tensions between Algeria in relation to the Western Sahara and Morocco *not said here* |  |  | 1989 |  | nominally *property* | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **carry** | present · perfect · passive |  | little practical weight |  |  |  | which *nsubj:pass* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary weight=Value |

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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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