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title: The Byzantines then faced resistance from the Moorish tribes of the… — Algeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The Byzantines then faced resistance from the Moorish tribes of the Aurès Mountains. Who acts: Byzantines. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Algeria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Algeria, sentence 89

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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 Byzantines then faced resistance from the Moorish tribes of the Aurès Mountains.

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**Who acts:** Byzantines · **What happens:** face · **To what, where:** resistance, Moorish tribes

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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 (Byzantines), 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:89
# text = The Byzantines then faced resistance from the Moorish tribes of the Aurès Mountains.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Byzantines	Byzantine	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	faced	face	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	resistance	resistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Moorish	moorish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Aurès	Aurès	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **face** | past | the Byzantines | resistance |  | the Moorish tribes of the Aurès Mountains | then |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent resistance=Destination |

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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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