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title: All the rivers that cross it flow into the Mediterranean making it s… — Algiers · tree and pragmatics
description: All the rivers that cross it flow into the Mediterranean making it specific to its environment. Who acts: rivers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Algiers» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Algiers, sentence 133

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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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All the rivers that cross it flow into the Mediterranean making it specific to its environment.

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**Who acts:** rivers · **What happens:** cross, flow, make · **To what, where:** River, Mediterranean

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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 (rivers), 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:133
# text = All the rivers that cross it flow into the Mediterranean making it specific to its environment.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	cross	cross	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	flow	flow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	specific	specific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	environment	environment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | present | all rivers | River |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **flow** | infinitive | all rivers |  |  | the Mediterranean |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | all rivers *not said here* | River |  |  |  | specific *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

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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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