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title: The site was the traditional location of homes and shops of the Chin… — Port Louis · tree and pragmatics
description: The site was the traditional location of homes and shops of the Chinese community, which was dominated by descendants of the Hakka Chinese, who first came to Mauritius in 1826. Who acts: site, descendants. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port Louis» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port Louis, sentence 120

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From Wikipedia, [«Port Louis»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Louis), 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 site was the traditional location of homes and shops of the Chinese community, which was dominated by descendants of the Hakka Chinese, who first came to Mauritius in 1826.

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**Who acts:** site, descendants · **What happens:** be, dominate, come · **To what, where:** traditional location, Chinese community, Mauritius, 1826

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Port Louis». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (site, descendants), 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:Port_Louis:120
# text = The site was the traditional location of homes and shops of the Chinese community, which was dominated by descendants of the Hakka Chinese, who first came to Mauritius in 1826.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	dominated	dominate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	descendants	descendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Hakka	Hakka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	NNP	_	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	28	advmod	_	_
28	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Mauritius	Mauritius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	1826	1826	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the site | the traditional location |  |  |  | of homes and shops of the Chinese community | tree rules |
| 2 | **dominate** | past · passive | descendants of the Hakka Chinese | the Chinese community |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | descendants of the Hakka Chinese |  | Mauritius | 1826 |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mauritius=Initial\_Location |

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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, «Port Louis», 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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