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title: On 20 December 1777, Morocco's Sultan Mohammed III declared that Ame… — Morocco · tree and pragmatics
description: On 20 December 1777, Morocco's Sultan Mohammed III declared that American merchant ships would be under the protection of the sultanate and could thus enjoy safe passage. Who acts: Mohammed, American merchant ships. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Morocco» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Morocco, sentence 99

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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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On 20 December 1777, Morocco's Sultan Mohammed III declared that American merchant ships would be under the protection of the sultanate and could thus enjoy safe passage.

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**Who acts:** Mohammed, American merchant ships · **What happens:** declare, be, enjoy · **To what, where:** 20, protection, safe passage · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Mohammed, American merchant ships), 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:99
# text = On 20 December 1777, Morocco's Sultan Mohammed III declared that American merchant ships would be under the protection of the sultanate and could thus enjoy safe passage.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
3	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	1777	1777	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Morocco	Morocco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Mohammed	Mohammed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	III	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	_
11	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
13	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
18	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sultanate	sultanate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
28	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Mohammed  Morocco's Sultan |  |  | 20  1777  December |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | would | American merchant ships |  |  | the protection |  | of the sultanate | tree rules |
| 3 | **enjoy** | could | Mohammed  Morocco's Sultan *not said here* | safe passage |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer passage=Stimulus |

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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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