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title: Mauritius claims sovereignty over Tromelin island, though it is regi… — Mauritius · tree and pragmatics
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# Mauritius, sentence 293

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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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Mauritius claims sovereignty over Tromelin island, though it is registered as a part of France.

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**Who acts:** Mauritius · **What happens:** claim, register · **To what, where:** sovereignty, Tromelin island

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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 (Mauritius), 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:293
# text = Mauritius claims sovereignty over Tromelin island, though it is registered as a part of France.
1	Mauritius	Mauritius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	claims	claim	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sovereignty	sovereignty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Tromelin	Tromelin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	registered	register	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **claim** *speech: other* | present | Mauritius | sovereignty |  | Tromelin island |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sovereignty=Topic |
| 2 | **register** | present · passive |  | sovereignty |  |  |  | as a part of France *result* | vn patent-101 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme as part=Result |

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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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