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title: In 1912, France and Spain established protectorates over the country… — Morocco · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1912, France and Spain established protectorates over the country and designated Tangier as an international zone, while the Sultan remained the formal sovereign with limited authority under colonial control. Who acts: France, Sultan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Morocco» with its dependency tree a
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# Morocco, sentence 15

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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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In 1912, France and Spain established protectorates over the country and designated Tangier as an international zone, while the Sultan remained the formal sovereign with limited authority under colonial control.

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**Who acts:** France, Sultan · **What happens:** establish, designate, remain · **To what, where:** protectorates, 1912, Tangier, formal sovereign, colonial control

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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 (France, Sultan), 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:15
# text = In 1912, France and Spain established protectorates over the country and designated Tangier as an international zone, while the Sultan remained the formal sovereign with limited authority under colonial control.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1912	1912	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	established	establish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	protectorates	protectorate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	designated	designate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	Tangier	Tangier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	formal	formal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	limited	limited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	authority	authority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	under	under	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | past | France and Spain | protectorates |  | 1912 |  | over the country | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protectorate=Patient |
| 2 | **designate** | past | France and Spain *not said here* | Tangier |  |  |  | as a international zone | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent tangier=Theme as zone=Attribute |
| 3 | **remain** | past | the Sultan | the formal sovereign |  | colonial control |  | with limited authority | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sovereign=Attribute |

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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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