Madagascar, sentence 452

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.

Whereas the use of Arabic script and loan words and the adoption of Islamic astrology would spread across the island, Islam took hold in only a handful of Southeastern Coastal communities.

Who acts: Islamic astrology, Islam · What happens: spread, take, hold in, use · To what, where: adoption, island, handful, Arabic script

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 (Islamic astrology, Islam), 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	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	3 use	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 use	det
3	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 script	case
5	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 script	compound
6	script	script	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 use	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 words	cc
8	loan	loan	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 words	compound
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 script	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 adoption	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 adoption	det
12	adoption	adoption	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 script	conj
13	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 spread	mark
14	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 astrology	amod
15	astrology	astrology	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spread	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 spread	aux
17	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 adoption	acl
18	across	across	ADP	_	20 island	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 island	det
20	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spread	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 use	punct
22	Islam	Islam	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 took	nsubj
23	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 took	ccomp
25	in	in	ADP	_	24 hold	compound:prt
26	only	only	ADV	_	28 handful	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 handful	det
28	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hold	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 communities	case
30	Southeastern	southeastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 communities	amod
31	Coastal	coastal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 communities	amod
32	communities	community	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 handful	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spread	would	Islamic astrology	the adoption not said here	the island		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location adoption=Theme
2	take	past	Islam			whereas the use of Arabic script and loan words and the adoption	vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
3	hold in	present	Islam not said here	a handful of Southeastern Coastal communities			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme
4	use			Arabic script and loan words and the adoption			nom use «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.

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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Madagascar, sentence 452