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# Algiers, sentence 67

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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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Barbarossa lost Algiers in 1524 but regained it with the 1529 Capture of Peñón of Algiers, and then formally invited the Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent to accept sovereignty over the territory and to annex Algiers to the Ottoman Empire.

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**Who acts:** Barbarossa · **What happens:** lose, regain, invite, accept, annex, capture · **To what, where:** Algiers, 1524, Spanish, Sultan Suleiman, sovereignty, territory

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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 (Barbarossa), 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:67
# text = Barbarossa lost Algiers in 1524 but regained it with the 1529 Capture of Peñón of Algiers, and then formally invited the Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent to accept sovereignty over the territory and to annex Algiers to the Ottoman Empire.
1	Barbarossa	Barbarossa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Algiers	Algier	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1524	1524	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	regained	regain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	1529	1529	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	Capture	capture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Peñón	Peñón	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Algiers	Algier	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
20	formally	formally	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	invited	invite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Magnificent	Magnificent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
29	sovereignty	sovereignty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	over	over	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	annex	annex	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
36	Algiers	Algiers	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	Ottoman	Ottoman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | Barbarossa | Algiers |  | 1524 |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent algier=Eventuality |
| 2 | **regain** | past | Barbarossa *not said here* | Spanish |  |  |  | with the 1529 Capture of Peñón of Algiers | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **invite** | past | Barbarossa *not said here* |  | the Sultan Suleiman |  | then | formally *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suleiman=Recipient |
| 4 | **accept** | to-infinitive | Barbarossa *not said here* | sovereignty |  | the territory |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sovereignty=Theme |
| 5 | **annex** | to-infinitive | Barbarossa *not said here* | Algiers |  |  |  | to the Ottoman Empire | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent algiers=Theme |
| 6 | **capture** |  |  | Peñón of Algiers |  |  |  |  | nom capture «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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