Madagascar, sentence 446
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.
It is widely believed that by showing respect for ancestors in these ways, they may intervene on behalf of the living.
Who acts: ancestors · What happens: believe, show, intervene · To what, where: Consideration, respect, behalf · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (ancestors), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 believed | aux:pass |
| 3 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 4 believed | advmod |
| 4 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 intervene | mark |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 showing | mark |
| 7 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 intervene | advcl |
| 8 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 showing | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 ancestors | case |
| 10 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 showing | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 ways | case |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 ways | det |
| 13 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ancestors | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 showing | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 intervene | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 intervene | aux |
| 17 | intervene | intervene | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 believed | ccomp |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 behalf | case |
| 19 | behalf | behalf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 intervene | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 living | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 living | det |
| 22 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 behalf | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present · passive | Consideration | widely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | gerund | ancestors = ancestor not said here | respect | for ancestors in this ways | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=Recipient | |||
| 3 | intervene | may | ancestors = ancestor | behalf of the living | tree rules |
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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