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title: During World War II, it briefly functioned as the administrative cen… — Algiers · tree and pragmatics
description: During World War II, it briefly functioned as the administrative center of Free France from 1942 to 1944 before returning to French colonial rule. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Algiers» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Algiers, sentence 10

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From Wikipedia, [«Algiers»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiers), 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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During World War II, it briefly functioned as the administrative center of Free France from 1942 to 1944 before returning to French colonial rule.

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**What happens:** function, return · **To what, where:** history, 1942

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Algiers». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:Algiers:10
# text = During World War II, it briefly functioned as the administrative center of Free France from 1942 to 1944 before returning to French colonial rule.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	briefly	briefly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	functioned	function	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	1942	1942	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	1944	1944	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	_
20	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **function** | participle · passive |  | history |  | 1942 to 1944 | during World War | as the administrative center of Free France; briefly *property* | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **return** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to French colonial rule *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to rule=Result |

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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, «Algiers», 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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