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title: On 21 January 2017, Sir Anerood Jugnauth announced his resignation a… — Mauritius · tree and pragmatics
description: On 21 January 2017, Sir Anerood Jugnauth announced his resignation and that his son and Finance Minister Pravind Jugnauth would assume the office of prime minister. Who acts: Anerood, son, Sir. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritius» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mauritius, sentence 248

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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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On 21 January 2017, Sir Anerood Jugnauth announced his resignation and that his son and Finance Minister Pravind Jugnauth would assume the office of prime minister.

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**Who acts:** Anerood, son, Sir · **What happens:** announce, assume, resign · **To what, where:** resignation, 21, office

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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 (Anerood, son, Sir), 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:248
# text = On 21 January 2017, Sir Anerood Jugnauth announced his resignation and that his son and Finance Minister Pravind Jugnauth would assume the office of prime minister.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
3	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:desc	_	_
7	Anerood	Anerood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Jugnauth	Jugnauth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	resignation	resignation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	Finance	Finance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:desc	_	_
19	Pravind	Pravind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
20	Jugnauth	Jugnauth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	assume	assume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	prime	prime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | Anerood  Sir | Sir's resignation |  | 21  2017  January |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resignation=Theme |
| 2 | **assume** | would | Sir's son | the office of prime minister |  |  |  |  | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent office=Theme |
| 3 | **resign** |  | Sir |  |  |  |  |  | nom resignation «feeling transitive»: poss=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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