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title: An effort to move workers from the city centre has already started w… — Port Louis · tree and pragmatics
description: An effort to move workers from the city centre has already started with the construction of the Ébène office tower complex south of Port Louis. Who acts: effort. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port Louis» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port Louis, sentence 77

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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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An effort to move workers from the city centre has already started with the construction of the Ébène office tower complex south of Port Louis.

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**Who acts:** effort · **What happens:** move, start, construct · **To what, where:** workers, city centre, tower complex south

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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 (effort), 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:77
# text = An effort to move workers from the city centre has already started with the construction of the Ébène office tower complex south of Port Louis.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	already	already	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	started	start	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
18	Ébène	Ébène	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	complex	complex	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	Louis	Louis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | to-infinitive | a effort *not said here* | workers |  | the city centre |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent worker=Theme from centre=Trajectory |
| 2 | **start** | present · perfect | a effort |  |  |  |  | with the construction of the tower complex south  Ébène of Port | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with construction=Subeventuality |
| 3 | **construct** |  |  | the tower complex south  Ébène of Port |  |  |  |  | nom construction «act transitive»: of=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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