Mauritius, sentence 139
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.
More than 30,000 workers sacrificed a day's wage and came from all over the island to attend a giant meeting at the Champ de Mars.
Who acts: workers · What happens: sacrifice, come, attend · To what, where: 30,000, island, giant meeting, Champ Mars
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 (workers), 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 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 3 30,000 | advmod |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 1 More | fixed |
| 3 | 30,000 | 30,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 sacrificed | obl |
| 4 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sacrificed | nsubj |
| 5 | sacrificed | sacrifice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wage | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 day | case |
| 9 | wage | wage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sacrificed | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sacrificed | conj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 island | case |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 island | advmod |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 island | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 island | det |
| 16 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 attend | mark |
| 18 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 came | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 meeting | det |
| 20 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 meeting | amod |
| 21 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 attend | obj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 Mars | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Mars | det |
| 24 | Champ | Champ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Mars | compound |
| 25 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Champ | flat |
| 26 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 attend | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sacrificed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sacrifice | past | workers | 30,000 | a day's wage obj | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent wage=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | workers not said here | the island | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from island=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | attend | to-infinitive | workers not said here | a giant meeting | the Champ Mars | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme meeting=Goal |
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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