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title: Malaria had once forced a significant portion of the population to m… — Mauritius · tree and pragmatics
description: Malaria had once forced a significant portion of the population to move from the coastal regions to the Central Plateau in the late 19th century. Who acts: Malaria. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritius» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mauritius, sentence 193

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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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Malaria had once forced a significant portion of the population to move from the coastal regions to the Central Plateau in the late 19th century.

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**Who acts:** Malaria · **What happens:** force, move · **To what, where:** Malaria, coastal regions

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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 (Malaria), 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:193
# text = Malaria had once forced a significant portion of the population to move from the coastal regions to the Central Plateau in the late 19th century.
1	Malaria	Malaria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
4	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
20	Plateau	Plateau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	25	amod	_	_
25	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **force** | past · perfect · passive |  | Malaria |  |  |  | a significant portion of the population *obj*; once *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **move** | to-infinitive | Malaria *not said here* |  |  | the coastal regions to the Central Plateau | century |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from region=Trajectory |

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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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