Port Louis, sentence 120

From Wikipedia, «Port Louis», 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 site was the traditional location of homes and shops of the Chinese community, which was dominated by descendants of the Hakka Chinese, who first came to Mauritius in 1826.

Who acts: site, descendants · What happens: be, dominate, come · To what, where: traditional location, Chinese community, Mauritius, 1826

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Port Louis». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (site, descendants), 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 site	det
2	site	site	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 location	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 location	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 location	det
5	traditional	traditional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 location	amod
6	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 homes	case
8	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 location	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 shops	cc
10	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 homes	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 community	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 community	det
13	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 community	amod
14	community	community	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shops	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dominated	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 dominated	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 dominated	aux:pass
18	dominated	dominate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 community	acl:relcl
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 descendants	case
20	descendants	descendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 dominated	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 Chinese	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Chinese	det
23	Hakka	Hakka	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Chinese	compound
24	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	_	20 descendants	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 came	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 came	nsubj
27	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 came	advmod
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 descendants	acl:relcl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 Mauritius	case
30	Mauritius	Mauritius	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 came	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 1826	case
32	1826	1826	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 came	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 location	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the site	the traditional location			of homes and shops of the Chinese community	tree rules
2	dominate	past · passive	descendants of the Hakka Chinese	the Chinese community				vn contiguous_location-47.8-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme
3	come	past	descendants of the Hakka Chinese		Mauritius	1826	first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mauritius=Initial_Location

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, «Port Louis», 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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Port Louis, sentence 120