Madagascar, sentence 42
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.
An English state paper in 1699 records the arrival of 80 to 90 passengers from "Malagaskar" to what eventually became New York City.
Who acts: English state paper, 80 passengers · What happens: record, become, arrive · To what, where: arrival
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 (English state paper, 80 passengers), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 paper | det |
| 2 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 paper | amod |
| 3 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paper | compound |
| 4 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 records | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 1699 | case |
| 6 | 1699 | 1699 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 paper | nmod |
| 7 | records | record | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 arrival | det |
| 9 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 records | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 passengers | case |
| 11 | 80 | 80 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 passengers | nummod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 90 | case |
| 13 | 90 | 90 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 80 | nmod |
| 14 | passengers | passenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 arrival | nmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 Malagaskar | case |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Malagaskar | punct |
| 17 | Malagaskar | Malagaskar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 passengers | nmod |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Malagaskar | punct |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 what | case |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 passengers | nmod |
| 21 | eventually | eventually | ADV | _ | 22 became | advmod |
| 22 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 what | acl:relcl |
| 23 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 York | flat |
| 24 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 City | compound |
| 25 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 became | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 records | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | record | present | a English state paper in 1699 | the arrival of 80 passengers from Malagaskar to the arrival of 80 passengers from Malagaskar to the arrival | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrival=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | past | York City xcomp; eventually property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | arrive | 80 passengers from Malagaskar to the arrival of 80 passengers from Malagaskar to the arrival of 80 passengers | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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.
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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