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title: More than 30,000 workers sacrificed a day's wage and came from all o… — Mauritius · tree and pragmatics
description: More than 30,000 workers sacrificed a day's wage and came from all over the island to attend a giant meeting at the Champ de Mars. Who acts: workers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritius» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mauritius, sentence 139

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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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More than 30,000 workers sacrificed a day's wage and came from all over the island to attend a giant meeting at the Champ de Mars.

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**Who acts:** workers · **What happens:** sacrifice, come, attend · **To what, where:** 30,000, island, giant meeting, Champ Mars

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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 (workers), 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:139
# text = More than 30,000 workers sacrificed a day's wage and came from all over the island to attend a giant meeting at the Champ de Mars.
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	3	advmod	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	30,000	30,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
4	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sacrificed	sacrifice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	wage	wage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	all	all	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	attend	attend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	Champ	Champ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
26	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sacrifice** | past | workers | 30,000 |  |  |  | a day's wage *obj* | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent wage=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | workers *not said here* |  |  | the island |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from island=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **attend** | to-infinitive | workers *not said here* | a giant meeting |  | the Champ Mars |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme meeting=Goal |

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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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