Port Louis, sentence 65
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 oldest bank based in Port Louis is the Mauritius Commercial Bank, which was founded in 1838.
Who acts: oldest bank · What happens: base, be, found · To what, where: oldest bank, Port, Mauritius Commercial Bank, 1838
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 (oldest bank), 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 | 3 bank | det |
| 2 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 bank | amod |
| 3 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Bank | nsubj |
| 4 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bank | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Port | case |
| 6 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 based | obl |
| 7 | Louis | Louis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Port | flat |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Bank | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Bank | det |
| 10 | Mauritius | Mauritius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Bank | compound |
| 11 | Commercial | Commercial | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Bank | compound |
| 12 | Bank | Bank | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 founded | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 founded | aux:pass |
| 16 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 Bank | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 1838 | case |
| 18 | 1838 | 1838 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 founded | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 Bank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | base | participle | the oldest bank not said here | Port | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the oldest bank | the Mauritius Commercial Bank | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | found | past · passive | the Mauritius Commercial Bank | 1838 | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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