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title: Malcolm de Chazal was a common Mauritian visionary writer and painte… — Port Louis · tree and pragmatics
description: Malcolm de Chazal was a common Mauritian visionary writer and painter who was often seen in the capital, mostly at the central market, Champ de Mars and l'hôtel National. Who acts: Malcolm. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port Louis» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port Louis, sentence 127

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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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Malcolm de Chazal was a common Mauritian visionary writer and painter who was often seen in the capital, mostly at the central market, Champ de Mars and l'hôtel National.

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**Who acts:** Malcolm · **What happens:** be, see · **To what, where:** common Mauritian visionary writer, capital

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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 (Malcolm), 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:127
# text = Malcolm de Chazal was a common Mauritian visionary writer and painter who was often seen in the capital, mostly at the central market, Champ de Mars and l'hôtel National.
1	Malcolm	Malcolm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Chazal	Chazal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	Mauritian	mauritian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	visionary	visionary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	writer	writer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	painter	painter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	often	often	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	Champ	Champ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
28	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	l'hôtel	l'hôtel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	National	National	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Malcolm | a common Mauritian visionary writer and painter and the central market |  |  |  | painter *conj*; the central market *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past · passive |  | a common Mauritian visionary writer and painter and the central market |  | the capital |  | often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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