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title: On 6 November 1975, King Hassan asked for volunteers to cross into t… — Morocco · tree and pragmatics
description: On 6 November 1975, King Hassan asked for volunteers to cross into the Spanish Sahara. Who acts: King. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Morocco» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Morocco, sentence 143

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From Wikipedia, [«Morocco»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco), 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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On 6 November 1975, King Hassan asked for volunteers to cross into the Spanish Sahara.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** ask, cross · **To what, where:** 6, Spanish Sahara

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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 (King), 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:Morocco:143
# text = On 6 November 1975, King Hassan asked for volunteers to cross into the Spanish Sahara.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
3	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	1975	1975	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Hassan	Hassan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	volunteers	volunteer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | King |  |  | 6 |  | for volunteers | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **cross** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | King *not said here* |  |  | the Spanish Sahara |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into sahara=Initial\_Location |

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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, «Morocco», 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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