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title: In 1723, the Code Noir was established to regulate slavery; it categ… — Mauritius · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1723, the Code Noir was established to regulate slavery; it categorised one group of human beings as "goods", allowing the owner of these "goods" to be able to obtain insurance money and compensation in case of loss of his "goods". Who acts: Noir. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritius» with its de
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# Mauritius, sentence 60

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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 1723, the Code Noir was established to regulate slavery; it categorised one group of human beings as "goods", allowing the owner of these "goods" to be able to obtain insurance money and compensation in case of loss of his "goods".

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**Who acts:** Noir · **What happens:** establish, regulate, categoris, allow, be, obtain · **To what, where:** Code Noir, 1723, slavery, one group, owner, insurance money

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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 (Noir), 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:60
# text = In 1723, the Code Noir was established to regulate slavery; it categorised one group of human beings as "goods", allowing the owner of these "goods" to be able to obtain insurance money and compensation in case of loss of his "goods".
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1723	1723	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Code	Code	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Noir	Noir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	regulate	regulate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	categorised	categoris	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	allowing	allow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
35	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	insurance	insurance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	compensation	compensation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
48	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | past · passive |  | the Code Noir |  | 1723 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **regulate** | to-infinitive |  | slavery |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **categoris** | past | Noir | one group of human beings |  |  |  | as goods | tree rules |
| 4 | **allow** | gerund | Noir *not said here* | the owner of this goods |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owner=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | Noir *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **obtain** | to-infinitive | Noir *not said here* | insurance money and compensation |  | case of loss of France's goods |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset money=Theme |

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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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