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title: Before 1095, Andorra had no military protection, and the bishop of U… — Andorra · tree and pragmatics
description: Before 1095, Andorra had no military protection, and the bishop of Urgell, who knew that the count of Urgell wanted to reclaim the Andorran valleys, asked the Lord of Caboet for help and protection. Who acts: Andorra, bishop, count. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Andorra» with its dependency tree and pr
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# Andorra, sentence 51

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From Wikipedia, [«Andorra»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andorra), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Before 1095, Andorra had no military protection, and the bishop of Urgell, who knew that the count of Urgell wanted to reclaim the Andorran valleys, asked the Lord of Caboet for help and protection.

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**Who acts:** Andorra, bishop, count · **What happens:** have, know, want, reclaim, ask · **To what, where:** military protection, Andorran valleys, Lord · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Andorra». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Andorra, bishop, count), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Andorra:51
# text = Before 1095, Andorra had no military protection, and the bishop of Urgell, who knew that the count of Urgell wanted to reclaim the Andorran valleys, asked the Lord of Caboet for help and protection.
1	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1095	1095	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Andorra	Andorra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
7	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bishop	bishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Urgell	Urgell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	count	count	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Urgell	Urgell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	reclaim	reclaim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Andorran	Andorran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
30	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Caboet	Caboet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Andorra | no military protection |  |  | before 1095 |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protection=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | past | the bishop of Urgell |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **want** | past | the count of Urgell |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **reclaim** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the count of Urgell *not said here* | the Andorran valleys |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent valley=Theme |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the bishop of Urgell | the Lord of Caboet |  |  |  | for help and protection | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Andorra», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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