Mauritius, sentence 72
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.
Work contracts for these craftsmen were signed in 1734 at the time when they acquired their freedom.
Who acts: contracts · What happens: sign, acquire · To what, where: Work contracts, 1734, freedom
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 (contracts), 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 | Work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 contracts | compound |
| 2 | contracts | contract | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 signed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 craftsmen | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 craftsmen | det |
| 5 | craftsmen | craftsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 contracts | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 signed | aux:pass |
| 7 | signed | sign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 1734 | case |
| 9 | 1734 | 1734 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 signed | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 signed | obl |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 acquired | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 acquired | nsubj |
| 15 | acquired | acquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 signed | advcl |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 freedom | nmod:poss |
| 17 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 acquired | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 signed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sign | past · passive | Work contracts for this craftsmen | 1734 | time | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme in 1734=Destination | |||
| 2 | acquire | past | contracts = contract | contracts's freedom | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset freedom=Theme |
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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