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title: In January 1968, six weeks before the declaration of independence th… — Mauritius · tree and pragmatics
description: In January 1968, six weeks before the declaration of independence the 1968 Mauritian riots occurred in Port Louis, leading to the deaths of 25 people. Who acts: six weeks, 25 people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritius» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mauritius, sentence 182

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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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In January 1968, six weeks before the declaration of independence the 1968 Mauritian riots occurred in Port Louis, leading to the deaths of 25 people.

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**Who acts:** six weeks, 25 people · **What happens:** occur, lead, declare, die · **To what, where:** 1968, independence

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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 (six weeks, 25 people), 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:182
# text = In January 1968, six weeks before the declaration of independence the 1968 Mauritian riots occurred in Port Louis, leading to the deaths of 25 people.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
3	1968	1968	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	declaration	declaration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	1968	1968	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	Mauritian	mauritian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	riots	riot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	occurred	occur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	Louis	Louis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	deaths	death	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | past | six weeks before the declaration of independence |  |  | 1968  January |  | in Port; the 1968 Mauritian riots *nsubj* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in 1968=Location |
| 2 | **lead** | gerund | six weeks before the declaration of independence *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the deaths of 25 people | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to death=Patient |
| 3 | **declare** |  |  | independence |  |  |  |  | nom declaration «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **die** |  | 25 people |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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