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title: The University of al-Qarawiyyin in Fes was an important literary cen… — Morocco · tree and pragmatics
description: The University of al-Qarawiyyin in Fes was an important literary centre attracting scholars from abroad, including Maimonides, Ibn al-Khatib, and Ibn Khaldun. Who acts: University, important literary centre. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Morocco» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Morocco, sentence 551

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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 University of al-Qarawiyyin in Fes was an important literary centre attracting scholars from abroad, including Maimonides, Ibn al-Khatib, and Ibn Khaldun.

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**Who acts:** University, important literary centre · **What happens:** be, attract · **To what, where:** important literary centre, scholars

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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 (University, important literary centre), 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:551
# text = The University of al-Qarawiyyin in Fes was an important literary centre attracting scholars from abroad, including Maimonides, Ibn al-Khatib, and Ibn Khaldun.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Qarawiyyin	Qarawiyyin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Fes	Fes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	literary	literary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	attracting	attract	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	scholars	scholar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	including	including	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Maimonides	Maimonides	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Ibn	Ibn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Khatib	Khatib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	Ibn	Ibn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Khaldun	Khaldun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the University of al in Fes and Qarawiyyin | a important literary centre |  |  |  | including Maimonides and Ibn; Ibn Khaldun *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **attract** | gerund | a important literary centre *not said here* | scholars |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scholar=Patient |

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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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