Madagascar, sentence 442
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.
Veneration of ancestors has led to the widespread tradition of tomb-building as well as the Highlands practice of the famadihana, whereby a deceased family member's remains are exhumed and re-wrapped in fresh silk shrouds, before being replaced in the tomb.
What happens: lead, decease, exhume, re-wrapp, replace, practice · To what, where: Veneration, widespread tradition, remains, fresh silk shrouds, tomb, famadihana
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 | Veneration | Veneration | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 led | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 ancestors | case |
| 3 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Veneration | nmod |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 led | aux |
| 5 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 tradition | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tradition | det |
| 8 | widespread | widespread | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tradition | amod |
| 9 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 led | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 building | case |
| 11 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 building | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 tomb | punct |
| 13 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tradition | nmod |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 19 practice | cc |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 as | fixed |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 as | fixed |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 practice | det |
| 18 | Highlands | Highland | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 practice | compound |
| 19 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tradition | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 famadihana | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 famadihana | det |
| 22 | famadihana | famadihana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 practice | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 exhumed | punct |
| 24 | whereby | whereby | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 exhumed | advmod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 member | det |
| 26 | deceased | decease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 member | amod |
| 27 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 member | compound |
| 28 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 remains | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 member | case |
| 30 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 32 exhumed | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 exhumed | aux:pass |
| 32 | exhumed | exhume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 tradition | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 re-wrapped | cc |
| 34 | re-wrapped | re-wrapp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 exhumed | conj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 shrouds | case |
| 36 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 shrouds | amod |
| 37 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 shrouds | compound |
| 38 | shrouds | shroud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 re-wrapped | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 replaced | punct |
| 40 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 42 replaced | mark |
| 41 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 replaced | aux:pass |
| 42 | replaced | replace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 led | conj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 tomb | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 tomb | det |
| 45 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 replaced | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | present · perfect · passive | Veneration of ancestors | the widespread tradition of tomb building as the Highlands practice of the famadihana | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to tradition=Destination | ||||
| 2 | decease | participle | vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | exhume | present · passive | a deceased family member's remains | whereby property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | re-wrapp | participle | fresh silk shrouds | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | replace | gerund · passive | the tomb | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-theme» | |||||
| 6 | practice | the famadihana | nom practice «act transitive»: 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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