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title: The oldest bank based in Port Louis is the Mauritius Commercial Bank… — Port Louis · tree and pragmatics
description: The oldest bank based in Port Louis is the Mauritius Commercial Bank, which was founded in 1838. Who acts: oldest bank. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port Louis» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port Louis, sentence 65

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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 oldest bank based in Port Louis is the Mauritius Commercial Bank, which was founded in 1838.

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**Who acts:** oldest bank · **What happens:** base, be, found · **To what, where:** oldest bank, Port, Mauritius Commercial Bank, 1838

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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 (oldest bank), 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:65
# text = The oldest bank based in Port Louis is the Mauritius Commercial Bank, which was founded in 1838.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	Louis	Louis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Mauritius	Mauritius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	Commercial	Commercial	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Bank	Bank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1838	1838	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **base** | participle |  | the oldest bank *not said here* |  | Port |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the oldest bank | the Mauritius Commercial Bank |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **found** | past · passive |  | the Mauritius Commercial Bank |  | 1838 |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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