--- title: In an attempt by Charles X of France to increase his popularity amon… — Algiers · tree and pragmatics description: In an attempt by Charles X of France to increase his popularity amongst the French, he sought to bolster patriotic sentiment, and turn eyes away from his domestic policies, by treating the incident as a public insult and demanded an apology. Who acts: France, Charles. 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In an attempt by Charles X of France to increase his popularity amongst the French, he sought to bolster patriotic sentiment, and turn eyes away from his domestic policies, by treating the incident as a public insult and demanded an apology. **Who acts:** France, Charles · **What happens:** increase, seek, bolster, turn, treat, demand · **To what, where:** popularity, attempt, patriotic sentiment, eyes, incident, apology 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 (France, Charles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:90 # text = In an attempt by Charles X of France to increase his popularity amongst the French, he sought to bolster patriotic sentiment, and turn eyes away from his domestic policies, by treating the incident as a public insult and demanded an apology. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 attempt attempt NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Charles Charles PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 X X PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 increase increase VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 popularity popularity NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 amongst amongst ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 sought seek VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 bolster bolster VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 patriotic patriotic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 sentiment sentiment NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 26 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 away away ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 domestic domestic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 policies policy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 by by SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 34 treating treat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 incident incident NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 as as ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 public public ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 insult insult NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 demanded demand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 43 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 apology apology NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **increase** | to-infinitive | France *not said here* | France's popularity | | | | amongst the French | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer popularity=Patient | | 2 | **seek** | past | France | | | a attempt by Charles | | | tree rules | | 3 | **bolster** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | France *not said here* | patriotic sentiment | | | | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sentiment=Theme | | 4 | **turn** | infinitive | France *not said here* | eyes | | | | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 5 | **treat** | gerund | France *not said here* | the incident | | | | as a public insult | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent incident=Theme as insult=Attribute | | 6 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | France *not said here* | a apology | | | | | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme apology=Precondition | | 7 | **attempt** | | Charles | | | | | | nom attempt «act transitive»: by=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Algiers/89/) - next →: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Algiers/91/) - ↑ back to [Algiers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Algiers/)