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title: In 435 AD, the Vandal Kingdom took control of northern Africa along… — Algiers · tree and pragmatics
description: In 435 AD, the Vandal Kingdom took control of northern Africa along the coasts of today's Tunisia and Algeria. Who acts: Vandal Kingdom. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Algiers» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Algiers, sentence 40

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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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In 435 AD, the Vandal Kingdom took control of northern Africa along the coasts of today's Tunisia and Algeria.

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**Who acts:** Vandal Kingdom · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** control, 435 AD

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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 (Vandal Kingdom), 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:40
# text = In 435 AD, the Vandal Kingdom took control of northern Africa along the coasts of today's Tunisia and Algeria.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	435	435	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	AD	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Vandal	Vandal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	along	along	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	coasts	coast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	Tunisia	Tunisia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Algeria	Algeria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the Vandal Kingdom | control of northern Africa |  | 435 AD |  | along the coasts of today's Tunisia and Algeria | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent control=Value in ad=Location |

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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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