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title: In 1912, a French Foreign Legion expedition commanded by Captain Ger… — Tifariti · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1912, a French Foreign Legion expedition commanded by Captain Gerard, who was trying to link with their troops in Morocco, was exterminated by Sahrawi rebel nomads near Tifariti. Who acts: French Legion expedition, Sahrawi rebel nomads. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tifariti» with its dependency tre
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# Tifariti, sentence 10

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From Wikipedia, [«Tifariti»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tifariti), 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 1912, a French Foreign Legion expedition commanded by Captain Gerard, who was trying to link with their troops in Morocco, was exterminated by Sahrawi rebel nomads near Tifariti.

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**Who acts:** French Legion expedition, Sahrawi rebel nomads · **What happens:** command, try, link, exterminate · **To what, where:** French Legion expedition, 1912 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tifariti». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (French Legion expedition, Sahrawi rebel nomads), 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:Tifariti:10
# text = In 1912, a French Foreign Legion expedition commanded by Captain Gerard, who was trying to link with their troops in Morocco, was exterminated by Sahrawi rebel nomads near Tifariti.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1912	1912	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	Foreign	Foreign	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Legion	Legion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	expedition	expedition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	commanded	command	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl:agent	_	_
12	Gerard	Gerard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	link	link	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	18	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Morocco	Morocco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	exterminated	exterminate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	Sahrawi	Sahrawi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	rebel	rebel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	nomads	nomad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
31	near	near	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Tifariti	Tifariti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** | participle |  | a French Legion expedition *not said here* |  |  |  | Captain *obl:agent* | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **try** | past · progressive | a French Legion expedition |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **link** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a French Legion expedition *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with town's troops in Morocco | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with troops=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **exterminate** | past · passive | Sahrawi rebel nomads near Tifariti | a French Legion expedition |  | 1912 |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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, «Tifariti», 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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