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title: Instead, they collected tribute, focused on trade (especially metals… — Algeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Instead, they collected tribute, focused on trade (especially metals), and maintained friendly relations. Who acts: Carthaginians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Algeria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Algeria, sentence 49

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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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Instead, they collected tribute, focused on trade (especially metals), and maintained friendly relations.

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**Who acts:** Carthaginians · **What happens:** collect, focus, maintain · **To what, where:** tribute, friendly relations

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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 (Carthaginians), 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:49
# text = Instead, they collected tribute, focused on trade (especially metals), and maintained friendly relations.
1	Instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	collected	collect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	tribute	tribute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	focused	focus	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	metals	metal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	maintained	maintain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collect** | past | Carthaginians *= carthaginian* | tribute |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribute=Theme |
| 2 | **focus** | participle |  | tribute *not said here* |  |  |  | on trade | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on trade=Topic |
| 3 | **maintain** | past | Carthaginians *= carthaginian* *not said here* | friendly relations |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent relation=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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