Morocco, sentence 59
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.
Emperor Claudius annexed Mauretania directly in 44 AD, making it a Roman province ruled by an imperial governor (either a procurator Augusti, or a legatus Augusti pro praetore).
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: annex, make, rule · To what, where: Mauretania, AD, Roman province
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 (Emperor), 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 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 annexed | nsubj |
| 2 | Claudius | Claudius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Emperor | flat |
| 3 | annexed | annex | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Mauretania | Mauretania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 annexed | obj |
| 5 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 7 44 | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 44 | case |
| 7 | 44 | 44 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 AD | nummod |
| 8 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 annexed | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 making | punct |
| 10 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 annexed | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 making | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 province | det |
| 13 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 province | amod |
| 14 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 making | obj |
| 15 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 province | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 governor | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 governor | det |
| 18 | imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 governor | amod |
| 19 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ruled | obl:agent |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 procurator | punct |
| 21 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 23 procurator | cc:preconj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 procurator | det |
| 23 | procurator | procurator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 governor | appos |
| 24 | Augusti | Augusti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 procurator | appos |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 praetore | punct |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 praetore | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 Augusti | det |
| 28 | legatus | legatus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Augusti | nmod:desc |
| 29 | Augusti | Augusti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 praetore | compound |
| 30 | pro | pro | X | _ | 31 praetore | compound |
| 31 | praetore | praetore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 procurator | conj |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 procurator | punct |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 annexed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | annex | past | Emperor | Mauretania | 44 AD obl:unmarked | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mauretania=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | gerund | Emperor not said here | AD | a Roman province obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary province=Product | |||
| 3 | rule | participle | a Roman province not said here | a imperial governor obl:agent | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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.
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