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title: The electrification of Port Louis took place in 1909, and in the sam… — Mauritius · tree and pragmatics
description: The electrification of Port Louis took place in 1909, and in the same decade the Mauritius Hydro Electric Company of the Atchia Brothers was authorised to provide power to the towns of upper Plaines Wilhems. Who acts: electrification. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritius» with its dependency tree an
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# Mauritius, sentence 113

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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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The electrification of Port Louis took place in 1909, and in the same decade the Mauritius Hydro Electric Company of the Atchia Brothers was authorised to provide power to the towns of upper Plaines Wilhems.

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**Who acts:** electrification · **What happens:** take, authorise, provide, electrify · **To what, where:** place, 1909, power, towns, Port

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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 (electrification), 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:113
# text = The electrification of Port Louis took place in 1909, and in the same decade the Mauritius Hydro Electric Company of the Atchia Brothers was authorised to provide power to the towns of upper Plaines Wilhems.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	electrification	electrification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	Louis	Louis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1909	1909	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	decade	decade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	Mauritius	Mauritius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	Hydro	Hydro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	Electric	Electric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Company	Company	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Atchia	Atchia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Brothers	Brother	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	authorised	authorise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	Plaines	Plaine	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
36	Wilhems	Wilhems	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the electrification of Port | place |  | 1909 |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in 1909=Location |
| 2 | **authorise** | past · passive | the electrification of Port *not said here* |  |  |  | decade |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **provide** | to-infinitive | the electrification of Port *not said here* | power | the towns of upper Plaines |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent power=Theme to town=Recipient |
| 4 | **electrify** |  |  | Port |  |  |  |  | nom electrification «act transitive»: of=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, «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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