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title: Emperor Claudius annexed Mauretania directly in 44 AD, making it a R… — Morocco · tree and pragmatics
description: Emperor Claudius annexed Mauretania directly in 44 AD, making it a Roman province ruled by an imperial governor (either a procurator Augusti, or a legatus Augusti pro praetore). Who acts: Emperor. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Morocco» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Morocco, sentence 59

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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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Emperor Claudius annexed Mauretania directly in 44 AD, making it a Roman province ruled by an imperial governor (either a procurator Augusti, or a legatus Augusti pro praetore).

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**Who acts:** Emperor · **What happens:** annex, make, rule · **To what, where:** Mauretania, AD, Roman province

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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 (Emperor), 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:59
# text = Emperor Claudius annexed Mauretania directly in 44 AD, making it a Roman province ruled by an imperial governor (either a procurator Augusti, or a legatus Augusti pro praetore).
1	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Claudius	Claudius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	annexed	annex	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Mauretania	Mauretania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	44	44	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	AD	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	province	province	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	ruled	rule	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	imperial	imperial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:agent	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc:preconj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	procurator	procurator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
24	Augusti	Augusti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	legatus	legatus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:desc	_	_
29	Augusti	Augusti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
30	pro	pro	X	FW	_	31	compound	_	_
31	praetore	praetore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **annex** | past | Emperor | Mauretania |  |  |  | 44 AD *obl:unmarked* | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mauretania=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | Emperor *not said here* | AD |  |  |  | a Roman province *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary province=Product |
| 3 | **rule** | participle |  | a Roman province *not said here* |  |  |  | a imperial governor *obl:agent* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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