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title: The city's downtown sits at an elevation of 2 m (at the Algiers Cent… — Algiers · tree and pragmatics
description: The city's downtown sits at an elevation of 2 m (at the Algiers Central Post Office), while it averages 45 m across the city's metropolitan area, and tops at 407 m on the Bouzaréah peak. Who acts: downtown. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Algiers» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Algiers, sentence 139

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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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The city's downtown sits at an elevation of 2 m (at the Algiers Central Post Office), while it averages 45 m across the city's metropolitan area, and tops at 407 m on the Bouzaréah peak.

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**Who acts:** downtown · **What happens:** sit, average, elevate · **To what, where:** tops, elevation, 45 m, metropolitan area, 2 m

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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 (downtown), 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:139
# text = The city's downtown sits at an elevation of 2 m (at the Algiers Central Post Office), while it averages 45 m across the city's metropolitan area, and tops at 407 m on the Bouzaréah peak.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	downtown	downtown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	elevation	elevation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	m	m	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	Algiers	Algiers	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	Central	Central	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	Post	Post	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Office	Office	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	averages	average	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	45	45	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	m	m	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	across	across	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	metropolitan	metropolitan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	407	407	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	m	M	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	Bouzaréah	Bouzaréah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | the city's downtown | tops at 407 m on the Bouzaréah peak |  | a elevation of 2 m |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at elevation=Location |
| 2 | **average** | present | downtown | 45 m |  | the city's metropolitan area |  |  | vn multiply-108-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent m=Theme |
| 3 | **elevate** |  |  | 2 m |  |  |  |  | nom elevation «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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