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title: Algeria was the site of the highest state of development of Middle P… — Algeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Algeria was the site of the highest state of development of Middle Paleolithic Flake tool techniques. Who acts: Algeria. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Algeria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Algeria, sentence 39

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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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Algeria was the site of the highest state of development of Middle Paleolithic Flake tool techniques.

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**Who acts:** Algeria · **What happens:** be, develop · **To what, where:** site, Flake tool techniques

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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 (Algeria), 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:39
# text = Algeria was the site of the highest state of development of Middle Paleolithic Flake tool techniques.
1	Algeria	Algeria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Paleolithic	Paleolithic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Flake	Flake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	tool	tool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	techniques	technique	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Algeria | the site |  |  |  | of the highest state of development of Flake tool techniques | tree rules |
| 2 | **develop** |  |  | Flake tool techniques |  |  |  |  | nom development «act transitive»: of=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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