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title: Over the years, Mauritius has been positioning itself as the preferr… — Mauritius · tree and pragmatics
description: Over the years, Mauritius has been positioning itself as the preferred hub for investment into Africa due its strategic location between Asia and Africa, hybrid regulatory framework, ease of doing business, investment protection treaties, non-double taxation treaties, highly qualified and multilingu
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# Mauritius, sentence 500

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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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Over the years, Mauritius has been positioning itself as the preferred hub for investment into Africa due its strategic location between Asia and Africa, hybrid regulatory framework, ease of doing business, investment protection treaties, non-double taxation treaties, highly qualified and multilingual workforce, political stability, low crime rate coupled with modern infrastructure and connectivity.

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**Who acts:** Mauritius, ease · **What happens:** position, prefer, do, couple · **To what, where:** economy, due strategic location, business, low crime rate

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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 (Mauritius, ease), 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:500
# text = Over the years, Mauritius has been positioning itself as the preferred hub for investment into Africa due its strategic location between Asia and Africa, hybrid regulatory framework, ease of doing business, investment protection treaties, non-double taxation treaties, highly qualified and multilingual workforce, political stability, low crime rate coupled with modern infrastructure and connectivity.
1	Over	over	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Mauritius	Mauritius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux	_	_
8	positioning	position	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	preferred	prefer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	hub	hub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	investment	investment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	strategic	strategic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
22	between	between	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	hybrid	hybrid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	regulatory	regulatory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	framework	framework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
32	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
34	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	investment	investment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	treaties	treaty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	non-double	non-double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	taxation	taxation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	treaties	treaty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	qualified	qualified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	multilingual	multilingual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	conj	_	_
48	workforce	workforce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	stability	stability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
54	crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
56	coupled	couple	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	55	acl	_	_
57	with	with	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	infrastructure	infrastructure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	connectivity	connectivity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **position** | present · perfect · progressive | Mauritius | economy |  | economy's due strategic location  Africa between Asia and Africa | year | as the preferred hub for investment | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent itself=Theme |
| 2 | **prefer** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **do** | gerund | ease *not said here* | business and protection treaties and non-double taxation treaties and qualified workforce and political stability and low crime rate |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Eventuality |
| 4 | **couple** | participle |  | low crime rate *not said here* |  |  |  | with modern infrastructure and connectivity | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with infrastructure=Co-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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