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title: Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island countr… — Mauritius · tree and pragmatics
description: Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, located about 1100 nmi off the southeastern coast of Africa, east of Madagascar. Who acts: Mauritius. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritius» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mauritius, sentence 1

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From Wikipedia, [«Mauritius»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius), 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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Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, located about 1100 nmi off the southeastern coast of Africa, east of Madagascar.

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**Who acts:** Mauritius · **What happens:** be, locate · **To what, where:** island country, Indian Ocean

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mauritius». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mauritius), 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:Mauritius:1
# text = Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, located about 1100 nmi off the southeastern coast of Africa, east of Madagascar.
1	Mauritius	Mauritius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Mauritius	Mauritius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
19	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	1100	1100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
21	nmi	nmi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	dep	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	southeastern	southeastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Mauritius | a island country |  | the Indian Ocean |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **locate** | participle | Mauritius *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about 1100; off the southeastern coast of Africa and east of Madagascar | 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, «Mauritius», 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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