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title: The Barbary lion, hunted to extinction in the wild, was a subspecies… — Morocco · tree and pragmatics
description: The Barbary lion, hunted to extinction in the wild, was a subspecies native to Morocco and is a national emblem. Who acts: Barbary lion. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Morocco» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Morocco, sentence 272

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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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The Barbary lion, hunted to extinction in the wild, was a subspecies native to Morocco and is a national emblem.

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**Who acts:** Barbary lion · **What happens:** hunt, be · **To what, where:** Barbary lion, wild, Morocco, national emblem

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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 (Barbary lion), 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:272
# text = The Barbary lion, hunted to extinction in the wild, was a subspecies native to Morocco and is a national emblem.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Barbary	Barbary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	extinction	extinction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	subspecies	subspecies	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Morocco	Morocco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	emblem	emblem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | participle |  | the Barbary lion *not said here* |  | the wild |  | to extinction | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in wild=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | the Barbary lion |  | Morocco |  |  | a subspecies *nsubj*; native *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the Barbary lion *not said here* | a national emblem |  |  |  |  | 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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