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title: Mauritius won its first Olympic medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in… — Mauritius · tree and pragmatics
description: Mauritius won its first Olympic medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing when boxer Bruno Julie won the bronze medal. Who acts: Mauritius, boxer. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritius» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mauritius, sentence 566

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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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Mauritius won its first Olympic medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing when boxer Bruno Julie won the bronze medal.

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**Who acts:** Mauritius, boxer · **What happens:** win · **To what, where:** first Olympic medal, 2008 Summer Olympics, bronze medal

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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, boxer), 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:566
# text = Mauritius won its first Olympic medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing when boxer Bruno Julie won the bronze medal.
1	Mauritius	Mauritius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
5	Olympic	olympic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	medal	medal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	Summer	Summer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Olympics	Olympic	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Beijing	Beijing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
14	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
15	boxer	boxer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	Bruno	Bruno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	Julie	Julie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	medal	medal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past | Mauritius | Hemisphere's first Olympic medal |  | the 2008 Summer Olympics |  | in Beijing | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent medal=Theme at olympic=Asset |
| 2 | **win** | past | boxer | the bronze medal |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medal=Eventuality |

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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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