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title: Most of the southeast portion of the country is in the Sahara Desert… — Morocco · tree and pragmatics
description: Most of the southeast portion of the country is in the Sahara Desert and as such is generally sparsely populated and unproductive economically. Who acts: Most. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Morocco» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Morocco, sentence 206

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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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Most of the southeast portion of the country is in the Sahara Desert and as such is generally sparsely populated and unproductive economically.

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**Who acts:** Most · **What happens:** be, populate · **To what, where:** Sahara Desert

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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 (Most), 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:206
# text = Most of the southeast portion of the country is in the Sahara Desert and as such is generally sparsely populated and unproductive economically.
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	southeast	southeast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Desert	Desert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
18	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	sparsely	sparsely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	populated	populate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	unproductive	unproductive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	economically	economically	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Most of the southeast portion of the country |  |  | the Sahara Desert |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **populate** | present · passive | Most of the southeast portion of the country *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as such; economically, generally, sparsely *property* | tree rules |

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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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