Madagascar, sentence 171
From Wikipedia, «Madagascar», 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.
Malagasy troops fought for France in World War I. In the 1930s, Nazi political thinkers developed the Madagascar Plan that had identified the island as a potential site for the deportation of Europe's Jews.
Who acts: Malagasy troops, Nazi political thinkers · What happens: fight, develop, identify, deport · To what, where: World War I., Madagascar Plan, Jews
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Madagascar». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Malagasy troops, Nazi political thinkers), 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 | Malagasy | malagasy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 troops | compound |
| 2 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 fought | nsubj |
| 3 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 France | case |
| 5 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fought | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 I. | case |
| 7 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 I. | compound |
| 8 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 I. | compound |
| 9 | I. | I. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fought | obl |
| 10 | In | in | ADP | _ | 12 1930s | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 1930s | det |
| 12 | 1930s | 1930 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 3 fought | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 developed | punct |
| 14 | Nazi | Nazi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 thinkers | compound |
| 15 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thinkers | amod |
| 16 | thinkers | thinker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 developed | nsubj |
| 17 | developed | develop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fought | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Plan | det |
| 19 | Madagascar | Madagascar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Plan | compound |
| 20 | Plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 developed | obj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 identified | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 identified | aux |
| 23 | identified | identify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 Plan | acl:relcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 island | det |
| 25 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 identified | obj |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 site | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 site | det |
| 28 | potential | potential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 site | amod |
| 29 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 identified | obl |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 deportation | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 deportation | det |
| 32 | deportation | deportation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 identified | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Jews | case |
| 34 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Jews | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 Europe | case |
| 36 | Jews | Jew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 32 deportation | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | Malagasy troops | World War I. | for France; in the 1930s | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | develop | past | Nazi political thinkers | the Madagascar Plan | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Product | ||||
| 3 | identify | past · perfect · passive | the Madagascar Plan | as a potential site; for the deportation of Europe's Jews; the island obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | deport | Europe's Jews | nom deportation «act transitive»: of=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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