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title: It was the first time the African Games were hosted by Morocco. — Rabat · tree and pragmatics
description: It was the first time the African Games were hosted by Morocco. Who acts: journey, Morocco. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Rabat» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Rabat, sentence 193

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From Wikipedia, [«Rabat»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabat), 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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It was the first time the African Games were hosted by Morocco.

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**Who acts:** journey, Morocco · **What happens:** be, host · **To what, where:** first time, African Games

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Rabat». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (journey, Morocco), 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:Rabat:193
# text = It was the first time the African Games were hosted by Morocco.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Games	Game	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	hosted	host	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Morocco	Morocco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | journey | the first time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **host** | past · passive | Morocco | the African Games |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary |

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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, «Rabat», 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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