Madagascar, sentence 34
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.
This would have resulted from the 13th-century Venetian explorer Marco Polo's confusion of the two locations in his memoirs, in which he mentions the land of Madageiscar to the south of Socotra.
Who acts: This, Madagascar, Marco · What happens: result, mention, confuse · To what, where: century Venetian explorer, land, south, two locations
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 (This, Madagascar, Marco), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 resulted | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 resulted | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 resulted | aux |
| 4 | resulted | result | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 explorer | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 explorer | det |
| 7 | 13th | 13th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 9 century | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 13th | punct |
| 9 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 explorer | compound |
| 10 | Venetian | venetian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 explorer | amod |
| 11 | explorer | explorer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 resulted | obl |
| 12 | Marco | Marco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 confusion | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Polo | Polo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Marco | flat |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Marco | case |
| 15 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 explorer | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 locations | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 locations | det |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 locations | nummod |
| 19 | locations | location | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 confusion | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 memoirs | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 memoirs | nmod:poss |
| 22 | memoirs | memoir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 locations | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 mentions | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 mentions | obl |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 mentions | nsubj |
| 27 | mentions | mention | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 resulted | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 land | det |
| 29 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 mentions | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Madageiscar | case |
| 31 | Madageiscar | Madageiscar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 land | nmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 south | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 south | det |
| 34 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 mentions | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Socotra | case |
| 36 | Socotra | Socotra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 south | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 resulted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | result | would · perfect | This | the century Venetian explorer and Marco's confusion of the two locations in Marco's memoirs | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mention speech: other | present | Madagascar | the land of Madageiscar | the south of Socotra | which obl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent land=Topic to south=Recipient | ||
| 3 | confuse | Marco | the two locations in Marco's memoirs | nom confusion «state transitive»: poss=agent 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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