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title: This continued administration constitutes a wrongful act", he said,… — Mauritius · tree and pragmatics
description: This continued administration constitutes a wrongful act", he said, adding "The UK has an obligation to bring to an end its administration of the Chagos Archipelago as rapidly as possible and that all member states must co-operate with the United Nations to complete the decolonization of Mauritius."
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# Mauritius, sentence 330

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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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This continued administration constitutes a wrongful act", he said, adding "The UK has an obligation to bring to an end its administration of the Chagos Archipelago as rapidly as possible and that all member states must co-operate with the United Nations to complete the decolonization of Mauritius."

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**Who acts:** continued administration, act, UK, member states · **What happens:** continue, constitute, say, add, have, bring · **To what, where:** wrongful act, obligation, end, decolonization, Chagos Archipelago, Mauritius · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (continued administration, act, UK, member states), 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:330
# text = This continued administration constitutes a wrongful act", he said, adding "The UK has an obligation to bring to an end its administration of the Chagos Archipelago as rapidly as possible and that all member states must co-operate with the United Nations to complete the decolonization of Mauritius."
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	constitutes	constitute	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	wrongful	wrongful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	adding	add	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	obligation	obligation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Chagos	Chagos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Archipelago	Archipelago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	as	as	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
34	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	advcl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
37	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	det	_	_
38	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
40	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	co-operate	co-operate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	45	compound	_	_
45	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	complete	complete	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	advcl	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	decolonization	decolonization	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	Mauritius	Mauritius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **constitute** | present | this continued administration | a wrongful act |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | act |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **add** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | gerund | act *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **have** | present | the UK | a obligation |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent obligation=Patient |
| 6 | **bring** | to-infinitive | the UK *not said here* | a obligation *not said here* |  |  | to a end and UK's administration of the Chagos Archipelago | rapidly *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to end=Destination |
| 7 | **co-operate** | must | all member states |  |  |  |  | with the United Nations | tree rules |
| 8 | **complete** | to-infinitive | all member states *not said here* | the decolonization of Mauritius |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decolonization=Eventuality |
| 9 | **administer** |  | UK | the Chagos Archipelago |  |  |  |  | nom administration «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
| 10 | **decolonize** |  |  | Mauritius |  |  |  |  | nom decolonization «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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