Madagascar, sentence 215
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.
Power and water cuts, as well as general distrust of Rajoelina's administration, sparked a series of protests in 2025 culminating in his flight and impeachment with the military taking control of the country.
Who acts: Power, military, Rajoelina · What happens: spark, culminate, take, distrust, administer · To what, where: series, 2025, flight, control, administration
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 (Power, military, Rajoelina), 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 | Power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sparked | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 cuts | cc |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cuts | compound |
| 4 | cuts | cut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Power | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 distrust | punct |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 9 general | cc |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 as | fixed |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 as | fixed |
| 9 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 distrust | amod |
| 10 | distrust | distrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Power | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 administration | case |
| 12 | Rajoelina | Rajoelina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 administration | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Rajoelina | case |
| 14 | administration | administration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 distrust | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Power | punct |
| 16 | sparked | spark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 series | det |
| 18 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sparked | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 protests | case |
| 20 | protests | protest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 series | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 2025 | case |
| 22 | 2025 | 2025 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 sparked | obl |
| 23 | culminating | culminate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 sparked | advcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 flight | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 flight | nmod:poss |
| 26 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 culminating | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 impeachment | cc |
| 28 | impeachment | impeachment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flight | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 military | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 military | det |
| 31 | military | military | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 culminating | obl |
| 32 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 military | acl |
| 33 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 taking | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 country | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 country | det |
| 36 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 control | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 sparked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spark | past | Power and water cuts and general distrust of Rajoelina's administration | a series of protests | 2025 | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition series=Patient | |||
| 2 | culminate | gerund | Power and water cuts and general distrust of Rajoelina's administration not said here | Rajoelina's flight and impeachment | with the military | tree rules | |||
| 3 | take | gerund | the military not said here | control of the country | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Theme | ||||
| 4 | distrust | Rajoelina's administration | nom distrust «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | administer | Rajoelina | nom administration «act 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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