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title: In keeping with the island's literary culture the prize alternates o… — Mauritius · tree and pragmatics
description: In keeping with the island's literary culture the prize alternates on a yearly basis between English-speaking and French-speaking writers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritius» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mauritius, sentence 544

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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 keeping with the island's literary culture the prize alternates on a yearly basis between English-speaking and French-speaking writers.

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**What happens:** keep, alternate, speak · **To what, where:** prize, yearly basis, writers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:544
# text = In keeping with the island's literary culture the prize alternates on a yearly basis between English-speaking and French-speaking writers.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	literary	literary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
11	alternates	alternate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	yearly	yearly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	basis	basis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	between	between	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	conj	_	_
24	writers	writer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | gerund |  | the prize |  |  |  | with the island's literary culture | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Theme |
| 2 | **alternate** | present |  |  |  | a yearly basis |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | English *compound* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  | writers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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