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title: The Uba riots of 1937 resulted in reforms by the local British gover… — Mauritius · tree and pragmatics
description: The Uba riots of 1937 resulted in reforms by the local British government that improved labour conditions and led to the un-banning of labour unions. Who acts: local British government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritius» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mauritius, sentence 137

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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 Uba riots of 1937 resulted in reforms by the local British government that improved labour conditions and led to the un-banning of labour unions.

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**Who acts:** local British government · **What happens:** result, improve, lead · **To what, where:** Uba riots, reforms, labour conditions

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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 (local British government), 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:137
# text = The Uba riots of 1937 resulted in reforms by the local British government that improved labour conditions and led to the un-banning of labour unions.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Uba	Uba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	riots	riot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1937	1937	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	resulted	result	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	reforms	reform	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:agent	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	improved	improve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	un-banning	un-banning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	unions	union	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **result** | participle |  | the Uba riots of 1937 *not said here* |  | reforms |  | the local British government *obl:agent* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in reform=Location |
| 2 | **improve** | past | the local British government | labour conditions |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent condition=Patient |
| 3 | **lead** | past | the local British government *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the un-banning of labour unions | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to un-banning=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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