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title: In 2012, Moroccan inventors applied for 197 patents, up from 152 two… — Morocco · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2012, Moroccan inventors applied for 197 patents, up from 152 two years earlier. Who acts: Moroccan inventors. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Morocco» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Morocco, sentence 438

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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 2012, Moroccan inventors applied for 197 patents, up from 152 two years earlier.

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**Who acts:** Moroccan inventors · **What happens:** apply · **To what, where:** 2012

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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 (Moroccan inventors), 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:438
# text = In 2012, Moroccan inventors applied for 197 patents, up from 152 two years earlier.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2012	2012	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Moroccan	moroccan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	inventors	inventor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	applied	apply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	197	197	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	patents	patent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	up	up	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	152	152	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **apply** | past | Moroccan inventors |  |  | 2012 |  | for 197 patents; from 152 | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for patent=Eventuality |

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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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