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title: Seychelles became a separate crown colony from Mauritius in 1903. — Seychelles · tree and pragmatics
description: Seychelles became a separate crown colony from Mauritius in 1903. Who acts: Seychelles. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Seychelles» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Seychelles, sentence 31

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From Wikipedia, [«Seychelles»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seychelles), 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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Seychelles became a separate crown colony from Mauritius in 1903.

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**Who acts:** Seychelles · **What happens:** become · **To what, where:** separate crown colony, 1903

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Seychelles». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Seychelles), 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:Seychelles:31
# text = Seychelles became a separate crown colony from Mauritius in 1903.
1	Seychelles	Seychelles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	separate	separate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Mauritius	Mauritius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1903	1903	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Seychelles | a separate crown colony from Mauritius |  |  |  | in 1903 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1903=Result |

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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, «Seychelles», 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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