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title: Morocco was ranked as the first African country by the Economist Int… — Morocco · tree and pragmatics
description: Morocco was ranked as the first African country by the Economist Intelligence Unit's quality-of-life index, ahead of South Africa. Who acts: life index. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Morocco» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Morocco, sentence 374

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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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Morocco was ranked as the first African country by the Economist Intelligence Unit's quality-of-life index, ahead of South Africa.

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**Who acts:** life index · **What happens:** rank · **To what, where:** Morocco

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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 (life index), 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:374
# text = Morocco was ranked as the first African country by the Economist Intelligence Unit's quality-of-life index, ahead of South Africa.
1	Morocco	Morocco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	ranked	rank	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
7	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	Economist	Economist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Intelligence	Intelligence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Unit	Unit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	index	index	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rank** | past · passive | the Intelligence Unit's life index  quality | Morocco |  |  |  | as the first African country; ahead *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme as country=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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