Madagascar, sentence 406
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.
Madagascar's media have historically come under varying degrees of pressure to censor their criticism of the government, with reporters occasionally threatened or harassed and media outlets periodically forced to close.
Who acts: media, media outlets · What happens: come, vary, censor, threaten, harass, force · To what, where: degrees, criticism, reporters, media outlets
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 (media, media outlets), 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 | Madagascar | Madagascar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 media | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Madagascar | case |
| 3 | media | media | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 come | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux |
| 5 | historically | historically | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 varying | mark |
| 8 | varying | vary | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 come | advcl |
| 9 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 varying | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 pressure | case |
| 11 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 degrees | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 censor | mark |
| 13 | censor | censor | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 varying | advcl |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 criticism | nmod:poss |
| 15 | criticism | criticism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 censor | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 government | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 government | det |
| 18 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 criticism | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 reporters | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 reporters | case |
| 21 | reporters | reporter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 come | obl |
| 22 | occasionally | occasionally | ADV | _ | 23 threatened | advmod |
| 23 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 reporters | acl |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 harassed | cc |
| 25 | harassed | harass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 threatened | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 forced | cc |
| 27 | media | media | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 outlets | compound |
| 28 | outlets | outlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | periodically | periodically | ADV | _ | 30 forced | advmod |
| 30 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 threatened | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 close | mark |
| 32 | close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 forced | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · perfect | Madagascar's media | with reporters; historically property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | vary | gerund | Madagascar's media not said here | degrees of pressure | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer degree=Patient | ||||
| 3 | censor | to-infinitive | Madagascar's media not said here | media's criticism of the government | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | threaten | participle | reporters not said here | occasionally property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | harass | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | force | participle · passive | media outlets | periodically property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | close | to-infinitive | media outlets not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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.
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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