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title: Raouf Oderuth, the Mauritian Artist provides a 1930s scene depicting… — Port Louis · tree and pragmatics
description: Raouf Oderuth, the Mauritian Artist provides a 1930s scene depicting the waterfront when motorised transportation hardly existed. Who acts: Raouf, 1930s scene, motorised transportation. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port Louis» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port Louis, sentence 16

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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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Raouf Oderuth, the Mauritian Artist provides a 1930s scene depicting the waterfront when motorised transportation hardly existed.

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**Who acts:** Raouf, 1930s scene, motorised transportation · **What happens:** provide, depict, motoris, exist · **To what, where:** 1930s scene, waterfront

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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 (Raouf, 1930s scene, motorised transportation), 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:16
# text = Raouf Oderuth, the Mauritian Artist provides a 1930s scene depicting the waterfront when motorised transportation hardly existed.
1	Raouf	Raouf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	Oderuth	Oderuth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Mauritian	mauritian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Artist	Artist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	provides	provide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	1930s	1930	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	10	compound	_	_
10	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	depicting	depict	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	waterfront	waterfront	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
15	motorised	motoris	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	transportation	transportation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	existed	exist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | present | Raouf | a 1930s scene |  |  |  | the Mauritian Artist *nsubj* | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition scene=Theme |
| 2 | **depict** | gerund | a 1930s scene *not said here* | the waterfront |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent waterfront=Theme |
| 3 | **motoris** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **exist** | past | motorised transportation |  |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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, «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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