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title: Because of the strategic importance of the canal during World War II… — Panama · tree and pragmatics
description: Because of the strategic importance of the canal during World War II, the US extensively fortified access to it. Who acts: US. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Panama» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Panama, sentence 104

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From Wikipedia, [«Panama»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama), 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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Because of the strategic importance of the canal during World War II, the US extensively fortified access to it.

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**Who acts:** US · **What happens:** fortify · **To what, where:** access, Canal

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Panama». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (US), 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:Panama:104
# text = Because of the strategic importance of the canal during World War II, the US extensively fortified access to it.
1	Because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	strategic	strategic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	canal	canal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	during	during	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	extensively	extensively	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	fortified	fortify	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	access	access	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fortify** | past | the US | access | Canal |  |  | because the strategic importance of the canal during World War; extensively *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent access=Recipient |

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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, «Panama», 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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