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title: Rodrigues Island was named after Portuguese explorer Diogo Rodrigues… — Mauritius · tree and pragmatics
description: Rodrigues Island was named after Portuguese explorer Diogo Rodrigues, who first came upon the island in 1528. Who acts: Diogo. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritius» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mauritius, sentence 50

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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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Rodrigues Island was named after Portuguese explorer Diogo Rodrigues, who first came upon the island in 1528.

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**Who acts:** Diogo · **What happens:** name, come · **To what, where:** Rodrigues, 1528

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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 (Diogo), 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:50
# text = Rodrigues Island was named after Portuguese explorer Diogo Rodrigues, who first came upon the island in 1528.
1	Rodrigues	Rodrigues	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	explorer	explorer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Diogo	Diogo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	Rodrigues	Rodrigues	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	advmod	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1528	1528	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | past · passive |  | Rodrigues |  |  | after Diogo  Portuguese explorer |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | Diogo  Portuguese explorer |  |  | 1528 |  | upon the island; first *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon island=Location |

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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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