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title: In the beginning of the American Revolution, American merchant ships… — Morocco · tree and pragmatics
description: In the beginning of the American Revolution, American merchant ships in the Atlantic Ocean were subject to attacks by other fleets from the Barbary corsairs. Who acts: American merchant ships, other fleets. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Morocco» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Morocco, sentence 98

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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 the beginning of the American Revolution, American merchant ships in the Atlantic Ocean were subject to attacks by other fleets from the Barbary corsairs.

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**Who acts:** American merchant ships, other fleets · **What happens:** be, begin, attack · **To what, where:** beginning, American Revolution

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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 (American merchant ships, other fleets), 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:98
# text = In the beginning of the American Revolution, American merchant ships in the Atlantic Ocean were subject to attacks by other fleets from the Barbary corsairs.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	American	American	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Revolution	Revolution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	subject	subject	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	attacks	attack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	fleets	fleet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Barbary	Barbary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	corsairs	corsair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | American merchant ships in the Atlantic Ocean |  |  |  | in the beginning of the American Revolution | to attacks by other fleets from the Barbary corsairs; subject *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** |  |  | the American Revolution |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **attack** |  | other fleets from the Barbary corsairs |  |  |  |  |  | nom attack «act transitive»: by=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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