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title: It was also used as a stopping place for Sahrawi refugees en route t… — Tifariti · tree and pragmatics
description: It was also used as a stopping place for Sahrawi refugees en route to Tindouf (Algeria) during the invasion phase (1975–76). A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tifariti» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tifariti, sentence 17

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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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It was also used as a stopping place for Sahrawi refugees en route to Tindouf (Algeria) during the invasion phase (1975–76).

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**What happens:** use · **To what, where:** stronghold

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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: 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:17
# text = It was also used as a stopping place for Sahrawi refugees en route to Tindouf (Algeria) during the invasion phase (1975–76).
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	stopping	stopping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Sahrawi	Sahrawi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	refugees	refugee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Tindouf	Tindouf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Algeria	Algeria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
19	during	during	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	phase	phase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	1975	1975	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	26	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	76	76	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past · passive |  | stronghold |  |  |  | as a stopping place for Sahrawi refugees during the invasion phase and en route to Tindouf | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as place=Attribute |

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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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