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title: Since, as mentioned, the sound is found in the name of Zirids, some… — Algiers · tree and pragmatics
description: Since, as mentioned, the sound is found in the name of Zirids, some imagine that Dzayer is the result of the contraction of /aθˈziri/, meaning 'those of Ziri'. Who acts: some, Dzayer. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Algiers» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Algiers, sentence 32

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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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Since, as mentioned, the sound is found in the name of Zirids, some imagine that Dzayer is the result of the contraction of /aθˈziri/, meaning 'those of Ziri'.

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**Who acts:** some, Dzayer · **What happens:** mention, find, imagine, be, mean, name · **To what, where:** sound, name, result, Ziri, Zirids, aθˈziri

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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 (some, Dzayer), 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:32
# text = Since, as mentioned, the sound is found in the name of Zirids, some imagine that Dzayer is the result of the contraction of /aθˈziri/, meaning 'those of Ziri'.
1	Since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Zirids	zirid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	nsubj	_	_
17	imagine	imagine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	Dzayer	Dzayer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	contraction	contraction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	/	/	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	aθˈziri	aθˈziri	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	/	/	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Ziri	Ziri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mention** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | present · passive |  | the sound |  | the name of Zirids |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **imagine** | present | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Dzayer | the result |  |  |  | of the contraction of aθˈziri | tree rules |
| 5 | **mean** | gerund | some *not said here* | that Ziri |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ziri=Topic |
| 6 | **name** |  |  | Zirids |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **contract** |  |  | aθˈziri |  |  |  |  | nom contraction «act 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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