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title: Mauritius is also commonly known as Maurice (mɔʁis) and Île Maurice… — Mauritius · tree and pragmatics
description: Mauritius is also commonly known as Maurice (mɔʁis) and Île Maurice in French, as well as Moris (moʁis) in Mauritian Creole. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritius» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mauritius, sentence 41

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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 is also commonly known as Maurice (mɔʁis) and Île Maurice in French, as well as Moris (moʁis) in Mauritian Creole.

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**What happens:** know · **To what, where:** Mauritius, French

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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: 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:41
# text = Mauritius is also commonly known as Maurice (mɔʁis) and Île Maurice in French, as well as Moris (moʁis) in Mauritian Creole.
1	Mauritius	Mauritius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	commonly	commonly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Maurice	maurice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	mɔʁis	mɔʁis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Île	Île	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	20	cc	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	fixed	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
20	Moris	Moris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	moʁis	moʁis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Mauritian	Mauritian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Creole	Creole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present · passive |  | Mauritius |  | French |  | as Maurice and Île; Moris in Mauritian Creole *obl*; commonly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as maurice=Attribute |

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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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