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title: Mayotte became the overseas department and a region of France in 201… — Comoros · tree and pragmatics
description: Mayotte became the overseas department and a region of France in 2011 following a referendum which was passed overwhelmingly. Who acts: Mayotte. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Comoros» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Comoros, sentence 13

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From Wikipedia, [«Comoros»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comoros), 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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Mayotte became the overseas department and a region of France in 2011 following a referendum which was passed overwhelmingly.

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**Who acts:** Mayotte · **What happens:** become, follow, pass · **To what, where:** overseas department, 2011, referendum

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Comoros». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mayotte), 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:Comoros:13
# text = Mayotte became the overseas department and a region of France in 2011 following a referendum which was passed overwhelmingly.
1	Mayotte	Mayotte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	overseas	overseas	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	department	department	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	2011	2011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
13	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	referendum	referendum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	overwhelmingly	overwhelmingly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Mayotte | the overseas department and a region of France |  |  |  | in 2011 *result*; follow a referendum | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 2011=Result |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pass** | past · passive |  | a referendum |  |  |  | overwhelmingly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |

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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, «Comoros», 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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