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title: This allowed the evolution of a number of flightless birds and large… — Mauritius · tree and pragmatics
description: This allowed the evolution of a number of flightless birds and large reptile species. Who acts: This, number. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritius» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mauritius, sentence 363

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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 allowed the evolution of a number of flightless birds and large reptile species.

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**Who acts:** This, number · **What happens:** allow, evolve · **To what, where:** evolution

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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 (This, number), 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:363
# text = This allowed the evolution of a number of flightless birds and large reptile species.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	allowed	allow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	evolution	evolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	flightless	flightless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	reptile	reptile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | past | This | the evolution of a number of flightless birds and large reptile species |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evolution=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **evolve** |  | a number of flightless birds and large reptile species |  |  |  |  |  | nom evolution «process 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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