Rabat, sentence 42
From Wikipedia, «Rabat», 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.
This autonomous republic became a base for corsairs: pirates, also known as the "Salé Rovers", who preyed on merchant ships around the shores of Western Europe.
Who acts: autonomous republic, pirates · What happens: become, know, prey · To what, where: base, pirates, merchant ships
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Rabat». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (autonomous republic, pirates), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 republic | det |
| 2 | autonomous | autonomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 republic | amod |
| 3 | republic | republic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 became | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 base | det |
| 6 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 became | xcomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 corsairs | case |
| 8 | corsairs | corsair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 became | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 pirates | punct |
| 10 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 became | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 known | punct |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 known | advmod |
| 13 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 pirates | acl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 Rovers | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Rovers | det |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Rovers | punct |
| 17 | Salé | Salé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Rovers | compound |
| 18 | Rovers | Rover | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 known | obl |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 known | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 preyed | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 preyed | nsubj |
| 22 | preyed | prey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pirates | acl:relcl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 ships | case |
| 24 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ships | compound |
| 25 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 preyed | obl |
| 26 | around | around | ADP | _ | 28 shores | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 shores | det |
| 28 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 preyed | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Europe | case |
| 30 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Europe | amod |
| 31 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 shores | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | this autonomous republic | a base | for corsairs; pirates xcomp | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | know | participle | pirates not said here | as the Salé Rovers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as rover=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | prey | past | pirates | merchant ships | around the shores of Western Europe | tree rules |
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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