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title: Mohammed VI paid a controversial visit to the Western Sahara in 2002. — Morocco · tree and pragmatics
description: Mohammed VI paid a controversial visit to the Western Sahara in 2002. Who acts: Mohammed. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Morocco» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Morocco, sentence 161

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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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Mohammed VI paid a controversial visit to the Western Sahara in 2002.

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**Who acts:** Mohammed · **What happens:** pay · **To what, where:** controversial visit, 2002

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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 (Mohammed), 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:161
# text = Mohammed VI paid a controversial visit to the Western Sahara in 2002.
1	Mohammed	Mohammed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	VI	VI	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	controversial	controversial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	2002	2002	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past | Mohammed | a controversial visit |  | 2002 |  | to the Western Sahara | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset |

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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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