Morocco, sentence 98
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 the beginning of the American Revolution, American merchant ships in the Atlantic Ocean were subject to attacks by other fleets from the Barbary corsairs.
Who acts: American merchant ships, other fleets · What happens: be, begin, attack · To what, where: beginning, American Revolution
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 (American merchant ships, other fleets), 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 | _ | 3 beginning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 beginning | det |
| 3 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 subject | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Revolution | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Revolution | det |
| 6 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Revolution | amod |
| 7 | Revolution | Revolution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 beginning | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 beginning | punct |
| 9 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ships | amod |
| 10 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ships | compound |
| 11 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 subject | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Ocean | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Ocean | det |
| 14 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Ocean | compound |
| 15 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ships | nmod |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 subject | cop |
| 17 | subject | subject | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 attacks | case |
| 19 | attacks | attack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 subject | obl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 fleets | case |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fleets | amod |
| 22 | fleets | fleet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 attacks | nmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 corsairs | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 corsairs | det |
| 25 | Barbary | Barbary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 corsairs | compound |
| 26 | corsairs | corsair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 fleets | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 subject | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | American merchant ships in the Atlantic Ocean | in the beginning of the American Revolution | to attacks by other fleets from the Barbary corsairs; subject property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | begin | the American Revolution | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | attack | other fleets from the Barbary corsairs | nom attack «act transitive»: by=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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