Madagascar, sentence 177
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.
Since regaining independence, Madagascar has transitioned through four republics with corresponding revisions to its constitution.
Who acts: Madagascar, independence · What happens: regain, transition, correspond, constitute · To what, where: independence, four republics, revisions
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 (Madagascar, independence), 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 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 2 regaining | mark |
| 2 | regaining | regain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 transitioned | advcl |
| 3 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 regaining | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 regaining | punct |
| 5 | Madagascar | Madagascar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 transitioned | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 transitioned | aux |
| 7 | transitioned | transition | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 republics | case |
| 9 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 republics | nummod |
| 10 | republics | republic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 transitioned | obl |
| 11 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 12 corresponding | mark |
| 12 | corresponding | correspond | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 transitioned | advcl |
| 13 | revisions | revision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 corresponding | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 constitution | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 constitution | nmod:poss |
| 16 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 corresponding | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 transitioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | regain | gerund | Madagascar not said here | independence | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Theme | ||||
| 2 | transition | present · perfect | Madagascar | four republics | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | correspond | gerund | Madagascar not said here | revisions | to independence's constitution | tree rules | |||
| 4 | constitute | independence | nom constitution «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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