Mauritius, sentence 203
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This claim was repeated in a 1987 book by journalist Bob Woodward, who further wrote that the U.S. government feared that Mauritius could become a Soviet naval base if a "pro-Western" government did not remain in power.
Who acts: journalist Bob, U.S. government, Mauritius, pro-Western government · What happens: repeat, write, fear, become, not remain · To what, where: claim, 1987 book, Soviet naval base, power · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (journalist Bob, U.S. government, Mauritius, pro-Western government), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 claim | det |
| 2 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 repeated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 repeated | aux:pass |
| 4 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 book | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 book | det |
| 7 | 1987 | 1987 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 book | compound |
| 8 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 repeated | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 Bob | case |
| 10 | journalist | journalist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Bob | compound |
| 11 | Bob | Bob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 repeated | obl |
| 12 | Woodward | Woodward | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Bob | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wrote | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 wrote | nsubj |
| 15 | further | further | ADV | _ | 16 wrote | advmod |
| 16 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Bob | acl:relcl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 feared | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 government | det |
| 19 | U.S. | U.S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 government | compound |
| 20 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 feared | nsubj |
| 21 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wrote | advcl |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 become | mark |
| 23 | Mauritius | Mauritius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 become | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 become | aux |
| 25 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 feared | ccomp |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 base | det |
| 27 | Soviet | soviet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 base | amod |
| 28 | naval | naval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 base | amod |
| 29 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 become | xcomp |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 38 remain | mark |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 government | det |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 pro-Western | punct |
| 33 | pro-Western | pro-western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 government | amod |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 pro-Western | punct |
| 35 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 remain | nsubj |
| 36 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 remain | aux |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 remain | advmod |
| 38 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 base | acl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 power | case |
| 40 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 remain | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | past · passive | journalist Bob | this claim | a 1987 book | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | write | past | journalist Bob | further property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fear | past | the U.S. government | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | become | could | Mauritius | a Soviet naval base | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not remain a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | a pro-Western government | a Soviet naval base not said here | power | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme base=Attribute |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Mauritius», 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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