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title: Plans to transform the face of the city to match French standards an… — Algiers · tree and pragmatics
description: Plans to transform the face of the city to match French standards and architectural trends began shortly after obtaining the city. Who acts: Plans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Algiers» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Algiers, sentence 98

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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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Plans to transform the face of the city to match French standards and architectural trends began shortly after obtaining the city.

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**Who acts:** Plans · **What happens:** transform, match, begin, obtain · **To what, where:** face, French standards, city

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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 (Plans), 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:98
# text = Plans to transform the face of the city to match French standards and architectural trends began shortly after obtaining the city.
1	Plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	transform	transform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	match	match	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	standards	standard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	architectural	architectural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	trends	trend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	obtaining	obtain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **transform** | to-infinitive | Plans *not said here* | the face of the city |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
| 2 | **match** | to-infinitive | Plans *not said here* | French standards and architectural trends |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent standard=Patient |
| 3 | **begin** | past | Plans |  |  |  |  | shortly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **obtain** | gerund | Plans *not said here* | the city |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset city=Theme |

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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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