Morocco, sentence 15
From Wikipedia, «Morocco», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
In 1912, France and Spain established protectorates over the country and designated Tangier as an international zone, while the Sultan remained the formal sovereign with limited authority under colonial control.
Who acts: France, Sultan · What happens: establish, designate, remain · To what, where: protectorates, 1912, Tangier, formal sovereign, colonial control
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Morocco». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (France, Sultan), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1912 | case |
| 2 | 1912 | 1912 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 established | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1912 | punct |
| 4 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 established | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Spain | cc |
| 6 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 France | conj |
| 7 | established | establish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | protectorates | protectorate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 established | obj |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 country | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 country | det |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 established | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 designated | cc |
| 13 | designated | designate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 established | conj |
| 14 | Tangier | Tangier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 designated | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 zone | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 zone | det |
| 17 | international | international | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 zone | amod |
| 18 | zone | zone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 designated | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 remained | punct |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 remained | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Sultan | det |
| 22 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 remained | nsubj |
| 23 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 designated | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sovereign | det |
| 25 | formal | formal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sovereign | amod |
| 26 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 remained | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 authority | case |
| 28 | limited | limited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 authority | amod |
| 29 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sovereign | nmod |
| 30 | under | under | ADP | _ | 32 control | case |
| 31 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 control | amod |
| 32 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 remained | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 established | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | establish | past | France and Spain | protectorates | 1912 | over the country | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protectorate=Patient | ||
| 2 | designate | past | France and Spain not said here | Tangier | as a international zone | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent tangier=Theme as zone=Attribute | |||
| 3 | remain | past | the Sultan | the formal sovereign | colonial control | with limited authority | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sovereign=Attribute |
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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