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Madagascar, sentence 38

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.

However, a tempest threw them off course and they landed on the coasts of Madagascar, conquering the island and signing a treaty with its inhabitants.

Who acts: tempest, kings · What happens: throw, land, conquer, sign · To what, where: kings, course, coasts, island, treaty

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 (tempest, kings), 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

advmodpunctdetnsubjobjcaseoblccnsubjconjcasedetoblcasenmodpunctadvcldetobjccconjdetobjcasenmod:possoblpunctrootHoweverADV,PUNCTaDETtempestNOUNthrewVERBthemPRONoffADPcourseNOUNandCCONJtheyPRONlandedVERBonADPtheDETcoastsNOUNofADPMadagascarPROPN,PUNCTconqueringVERBtheDETislandNOUNandCCONJsigningVERBaDETtreatyNOUNwithADPitsPRONinhabitantsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HoweverhoweverADV_5 threwadvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Howeverpunct
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art4 tempestdet
4tempesttempestNOUNNumber=Sing5 threwnsubj
5threwthrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs5 threwobj
7offoffADP_8 coursecase
8coursecourseNOUNNumber=Sing5 threwobl
9andandCCONJ_11 landedcc
10theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs11 landednsubj
11landedlandVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 threwconj
12ononADP_14 coastscase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 coastsdet
14coastscoastNOUNNumber=Plur11 landedobl
15ofofADP_16 Madagascarcase
16MadagascarMadagascarPROPNNumber=Sing14 coastsnmod
17,,PUNCT_18 conqueringpunct
18conqueringconquerVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part11 landedadvcl
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 islanddet
20islandislandNOUNNumber=Sing18 conqueringobj
21andandCCONJ_22 signingcc
22signingsignVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part18 conqueringconj
23aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art24 treatydet
24treatytreatyNOUNNumber=Sing22 signingobj
25withwithADP_27 inhabitantscase
26itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs27 inhabitantsnmod:poss
27inhabitantsinhabitantNOUNNumber=Plur22 signingobl
28..PUNCT_5 threwpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1throwpasta tempestkings = kingcoursehowever propertyvn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme off course=Initial_Location
2landpastkings = kingthe coasts of Madagascarvn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on coast=Destination
3conquergerundkings = king not said herethe islandvn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Patient
4signgerundkings = king not said herea treatywith island's inhabitantsvn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent treaty=Destination with inhabitant=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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Madagascar», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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