Morocco, sentence 99
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.
On 20 December 1777, Morocco's Sultan Mohammed III declared that American merchant ships would be under the protection of the sultanate and could thus enjoy safe passage.
Who acts: Mohammed, American merchant ships · What happens: declare, be, enjoy · To what, where: 20, protection, safe passage · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Mohammed, American merchant ships), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 20 | case |
| 2 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 declared | obl |
| 3 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 1777 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 1777 | 1777 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 20 | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 20 | punct |
| 6 | Morocco | Morocco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Sultan | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Morocco | case |
| 8 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Mohammed | nmod:desc |
| 9 | Mohammed | Mohammed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 declared | nsubj |
| 10 | III | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 9 Mohammed | flat |
| 11 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 protection | mark |
| 13 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ships | amod |
| 14 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ships | compound |
| 15 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 protection | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 protection | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 protection | cop |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 protection | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 protection | det |
| 20 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 declared | ccomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sultanate | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sultanate | det |
| 23 | sultanate | sultanate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 protection | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 enjoy | cc |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 enjoy | aux |
| 26 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 27 enjoy | advmod |
| 27 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 declared | conj |
| 28 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 passage | amod |
| 29 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 enjoy | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | Mohammed Morocco's Sultan | 20 1777 December | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | would | American merchant ships | the protection | of the sultanate | tree rules | |||
| 3 | enjoy | could | Mohammed Morocco's Sultan not said here | safe passage | thus property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer passage=Stimulus |
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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