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title: Later the island became a French colony and was renamed Isle de Fran… — Mauritius · tree and pragmatics
description: Later the island became a French colony and was renamed Isle de France. Who acts: island. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritius» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mauritius, sentence 38

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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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Later the island became a French colony and was renamed Isle de France.

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**Who acts:** island · **What happens:** become, rename · **To what, where:** French colony, Isle

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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 (island), 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:38
# text = Later the island became a French colony and was renamed Isle de France.
1	Later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	renamed	rename	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
11	Isle	Isle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the island | a French colony |  |  |  | late *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **rename** | past · passive | the island *not said here* | Isle |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: isle=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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