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title: In 2012, Mauritius was ranked high in terms of economic competitiven… — Mauritius · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2012, Mauritius was ranked high in terms of economic competitiveness, a friendly investment climate, good governance and a free economy. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritius» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mauritius, sentence 492

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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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In 2012, Mauritius was ranked high in terms of economic competitiveness, a friendly investment climate, good governance and a free economy.

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**What happens:** rank, term · **To what, where:** Mauritius, 2012, economic competitiveness

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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:492
# text = In 2012, Mauritius was ranked high in terms of economic competitiveness, a friendly investment climate, good governance and a free economy.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2012	2012	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Mauritius	Mauritius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	ranked	rank	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	competitiveness	competitiveness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	investment	investment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	governance	governance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rank** | past · passive |  | Mauritius |  | 2012 |  | high *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **term** |  |  | economic competitiveness and a friendly investment climate and good governance and a free economy |  |  |  |  | nom term «communication 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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