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title: Morocco was originally scheduled to host the 2015 Africa Cup of Nati… — Morocco · tree and pragmatics
description: Morocco was originally scheduled to host the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, but refused to host the tournament on the scheduled dates because of fears over the Ebola outbreak on the continent. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Morocco» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Morocco, sentence 621

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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 originally scheduled to host the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, but refused to host the tournament on the scheduled dates because of fears over the Ebola outbreak on the continent.

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**What happens:** schedule, host, refuse, not host, date · **To what, where:** Morocco, 2015 Africa Cup, tournament, scheduled, Ebola outbreak

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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: 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:621
# text = Morocco was originally scheduled to host the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, but refused to host the tournament on the scheduled dates because of fears over the Ebola outbreak on the continent.
1	Morocco	Morocco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	scheduled	schedule	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	host	host	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Cup	Cup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	host	host	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tournament	tournament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	scheduled	schedule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	dates	date	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
24	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	26	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	fears	fear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Ebola	Ebola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	outbreak	outbreak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	continent	continent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **schedule** | past · passive |  | Morocco |  |  |  | originally *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **host** | to-infinitive |  |  | the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **refuse** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **host** | to-infinitive |  | the tournament |  | the scheduled |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tournament=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **date** | present |  |  |  | the Ebola outbreak on the continent |  | because fears | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: 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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