Mauritius, sentence 113

From Wikipedia, «Mauritius», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

The electrification of Port Louis took place in 1909, and in the same decade the Mauritius Hydro Electric Company of the Atchia Brothers was authorised to provide power to the towns of upper Plaines Wilhems.

Who acts: electrification · What happens: take, authorise, provide, electrify · To what, where: place, 1909, power, towns, Port

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mauritius». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (electrification), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 electrification	det
2	electrification	electrification	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Port	case
4	Port	Port	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 electrification	nmod
5	Louis	Louis	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Port	flat
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 1909	case
9	1909	1909	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 took	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 authorised	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 authorised	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 decade	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 decade	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 decade	amod
15	decade	decade	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 authorised	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Company	det
17	Mauritius	Mauritius	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Company	nsubj
18	Hydro	Hydro	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Company	compound
19	Electric	Electric	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Company	compound
20	Company	Company	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 decade	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 Brothers	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Brothers	det
23	Atchia	Atchia	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Brothers	compound
24	Brothers	Brother	PROPN	Number=Plur	20 Company	nmod
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 authorised	aux:pass
26	authorised	authorise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 took	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 provide	mark
28	provide	provide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 authorised	xcomp
29	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 provide	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 towns	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 towns	det
32	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 provide	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 Plaines	case
34	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Plaines	amod
35	Plaines	Plaine	PROPN	Number=Plur	32 towns	nmod
36	Wilhems	Wilhems	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Plaines	flat
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	past	the electrification of Port	place		1909		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in 1909=Location
2	authorise	past · passive	the electrification of Port not said here				decade	tree rules
3	provide	to-infinitive	the electrification of Port not said here	power	the towns of upper Plaines			vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent power=Theme to town=Recipient
4	electrify			Port				nom electrification «act transitive»: of=patient

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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Mauritius, sentence 113