Madagascar, sentence 329
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 this time, the Malagasy military has never engaged in armed conflict with another state or within its own borders, but has occasionally intervened to restore order during periods of political unrest.
What happens: not engage, intervene, restore · To what, where: Malagasy military, armed conflict, order
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: 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 | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 engaged | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 military | det |
| 6 | Malagasy | Malagasy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 military | compound |
| 7 | military | military | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 engaged | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 engaged | aux |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 engaged | advmod |
| 10 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 conflict | case |
| 12 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 conflict | amod |
| 13 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 engaged | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 state | case |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 state | det |
| 16 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 conflict | nmod |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 borders | cc |
| 18 | within | within | ADP | _ | 21 borders | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 borders | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 borders | amod |
| 21 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 state | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 intervened | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 intervened | cc |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 intervened | aux |
| 25 | occasionally | occasionally | ADV | _ | 26 intervened | advmod |
| 26 | intervened | intervene | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 engaged | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 restore | mark |
| 28 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 intervened | xcomp |
| 29 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 restore | obj |
| 30 | during | during | ADP | _ | 31 periods | case |
| 31 | periods | period | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 restore | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 unrest | case |
| 33 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 unrest | amod |
| 34 | unrest | unrest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 periods | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 engaged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not engage | present · perfect · passive | the Malagasy military | time | in armed conflict with another state or military's own borders goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme in conflict=Goal | |||
| 2 | intervene | present · perfect | occasionally property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | restore | to-infinitive | order | during periods of political unrest | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
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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