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title: The country's political heritage and dependence on Western markets h… — Mauritius · tree and pragmatics
description: The country's political heritage and dependence on Western markets have led to close ties with the European Union and its member states, particularly France. Who acts: political heritage. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritius» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mauritius, sentence 413

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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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The country's political heritage and dependence on Western markets have led to close ties with the European Union and its member states, particularly France.

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**Who acts:** political heritage · **What happens:** lead, close · **To what, where:** political heritage, Western markets, ties

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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 (political heritage), 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:413
# text = The country's political heritage and dependence on Western markets have led to close ties with the European Union and its member states, particularly France.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	heritage	heritage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	dependence	dependence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	markets	market	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	close	close	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	ties	tie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	European	European	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	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 | **lead** | present · perfect |  | the country's political heritage and dependence *not said here* |  | Western markets |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result |
| 2 | **close** | to-infinitive | the country's political heritage and dependence *not said here* | ties |  |  |  | with the European Union and dependence's member states  France | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent tie=Destination with union=Theme |

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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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