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title: The island was under the administration of the French East India Com… — Mauritius · tree and pragmatics
description: The island was under the administration of the French East India Company, which maintained its presence until 1767. Who acts: island, French India Company. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritius» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mauritius, sentence 65

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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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The island was under the administration of the French East India Company, which maintained its presence until 1767.

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**Who acts:** island, French India Company · **What happens:** be, maintain · **To what, where:** administration, presence

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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 (island, French India Company), 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:65
# text = The island was under the administration of the French East India Company, which maintained its presence until 1767.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Company	Company	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	maintained	maintain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	until	until	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	1767	1767	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the island |  |  | the administration |  | of the French India Company | tree rules |
| 2 | **maintain** | past | the French India Company | Company's presence |  |  | until 1767 |  | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent presence=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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