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title: When the French established a protectorate over Morocco in 1912, Rab… — Rabat · tree and pragmatics
description: When the French established a protectorate over Morocco in 1912, Rabat became its administrative center. Who acts: French, Rabat. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Rabat» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Rabat, sentence 8

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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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When the French established a protectorate over Morocco in 1912, Rabat became its administrative center.

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**Who acts:** French, Rabat · **What happens:** establish, become · **To what, where:** protectorate, Morocco, administrative center

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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 (French, Rabat), 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:8
# text = When the French established a protectorate over Morocco in 1912, Rabat became its administrative center.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	established	establish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	protectorate	protectorate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Morocco	Morocco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1912	1912	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	Rabat	Rabat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | past | the French | a protectorate |  | Morocco |  | in 1912 | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protectorate=Patient |
| 2 | **become** | past | Rabat | French's administrative center |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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