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title: Villa Abd-el-Tif, former residence of the dey, was used during the F… — Algiers · tree and pragmatics
description: Villa Abd-el-Tif, former residence of the dey, was used during the French period, to accommodate French artists, chiefly painters, and winners of the Abd-el-Tif prize, among whom Maurice Boitel, for a while of two years. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Algiers» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Algiers, sentence 238

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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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Villa Abd-el-Tif, former residence of the dey, was used during the French period, to accommodate French artists, chiefly painters, and winners of the Abd-el-Tif prize, among whom Maurice Boitel, for a while of two years.

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**What happens:** use, accommodate · **To what, where:** Villa, French artists

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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:238
# text = Villa Abd-el-Tif, former residence of the dey, was used during the French period, to accommodate French artists, chiefly painters, and winners of the Abd-el-Tif prize, among whom Maurice Boitel, for a while of two years.
1	Villa	Villa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	Abd	Abd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	el	el	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Tif	Tif	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	residence	residence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	during	during	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	accommodate	accommodate	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
23	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	artists	artist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	chiefly	chiefly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	painters	painter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	winners	winner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
33	Abd	Abd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	el	el	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Tif	Tif	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	among	among	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	38	nmod	_	_
42	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
43	Boitel	Boitel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	appos	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	50	nummod	_	_
50	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past · passive |  | Villa |  |  | during the French period | winners of the Tif prize  Abd  el among winners of the Tif prize  Abd  el among winners *obl* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **accommodate** | to-infinitive |  | French artists and chiefly painters |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent artist=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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