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title: Settlers of European descent marked a majority of the city's populat… — Algiers · tree and pragmatics
description: Settlers of European descent marked a majority of the city's population, some constituted a minority of "Pieds-noirs" who were granted French citizenship and rights under the Crémieux Decree. Who acts: Settlers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Algiers» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Algiers, sentence 100

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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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Settlers of European descent marked a majority of the city's population, some constituted a minority of "Pieds-noirs" who were granted French citizenship and rights under the Crémieux Decree.

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**Who acts:** Settlers · **What happens:** mark, constitute, grant · **To what, where:** majority, some, Pieds noirs

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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: who acts (Settlers), 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:100
# text = Settlers of European descent marked a majority of the city's population, some constituted a minority of "Pieds-noirs" who were granted French citizenship and rights under the Crémieux Decree.
1	Settlers	settler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	descent	descent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	constituted	constitute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	minority	minority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Pieds	Pieds	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	noirs	noir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	citizenship	citizenship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	under	under	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Crémieux	Crémieux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Decree	Decree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | past | Settlers of European descent | a majority of the city's population |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent majority=Destination |
| 2 | **constitute** | participle · passive |  | some |  |  |  | a minority of Pieds noirs *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **grant** | past · passive |  | Pieds noirs |  |  |  | French citizenship and rights under the Crémieux Decree *obj* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal citizenship=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, «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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