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title: This autonomous republic became a base for corsairs: pirates, also k… — Rabat · tree and pragmatics
description: This autonomous republic became a base for corsairs: pirates, also known as the "Salé Rovers", who preyed on merchant ships around the shores of Western Europe. Who acts: autonomous republic, pirates. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Rabat» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Rabat, sentence 42

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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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This autonomous republic became a base for corsairs: pirates, also known as the "Salé Rovers", who preyed on merchant ships around the shores of Western Europe.

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**Who acts:** autonomous republic, pirates · **What happens:** become, know, prey · **To what, where:** base, pirates, merchant ships

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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 (autonomous republic, pirates), 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:42
# text = This autonomous republic became a base for corsairs: pirates, also known as the "Salé Rovers", who preyed on merchant ships around the shores of Western Europe.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	autonomous	autonomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	corsairs	corsair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	pirates	pirate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	also	also	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Salé	Salé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Rovers	Rover	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	preyed	prey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	around	around	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | this autonomous republic | a base |  |  |  | for corsairs; pirates *xcomp* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  | pirates *not said here* |  |  |  | as the Salé Rovers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as rover=Attribute |
| 3 | **prey** | past | pirates |  |  | merchant ships |  | around the shores of Western Europe | tree rules |

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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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