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title: The riot was initiated by the murder of Police Constable Beesoo in h… — Mauritius · tree and pragmatics
description: The riot was initiated by the murder of Police Constable Beesoo in his vehicle by a Creole gang. Who acts: murder. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritius» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mauritius, sentence 173

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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 riot was initiated by the murder of Police Constable Beesoo in his vehicle by a Creole gang.

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**Who acts:** murder · **What happens:** initiate, murder · **To what, where:** riot, vehicle, Police Constable

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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 (murder), 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:173
# text = The riot was initiated by the murder of Police Constable Beesoo in his vehicle by a Creole gang.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	riot	riot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	initiated	initiate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	murder	murder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Police	Police	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Constable	Constable	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	Beesoo	Beesoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	vehicle	vehicle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Creole	creole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	gang	gang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **initiate** | past · passive | the murder of Police Constable | the riot |  | Constable's vehicle |  | by a Creole gang | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **murder** |  |  | Police Constable |  |  |  |  | nom murder «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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