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title: Under King Genseric, the Vandal Kingdom successfully defended Cartha… — Algeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Under King Genseric, the Vandal Kingdom successfully defended Carthage against two Byzantine expeditions from Constantinople in 460 and 468. Who acts: Vandal Kingdom. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Algeria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Algeria, sentence 79

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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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Under King Genseric, the Vandal Kingdom successfully defended Carthage against two Byzantine expeditions from Constantinople in 460 and 468.

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**Who acts:** Vandal Kingdom · **What happens:** defend · **To what, where:** Carthage, King Genseric

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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 (Vandal Kingdom), 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:79
# text = Under King Genseric, the Vandal Kingdom successfully defended Carthage against two Byzantine expeditions from Constantinople in 460 and 468.
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Genseric	Genseric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Vandal	Vandal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	successfully	successfully	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	defended	defend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Carthage	Carthage	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	against	against	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	Byzantine	byzantine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	expeditions	expedition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Constantinople	Constantinople	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	460	460	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	468	468	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **defend** | past | the Vandal Kingdom |  | Carthage | King Genseric |  | against two Byzantine expeditions from Constantinople; in 460; successfully *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent carthage=Beneficiary against expedition=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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