Madagascar, sentence 478
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.
According to the United Nations, more than one million people in southern Madagascar in 2021 were struggling to get enough to eat, due to what could become the country's first famine caused by climate change.
Who acts: million people · What happens: accord, struggle, get, eat, become, cause · To what, where: enough, first famine
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 (million people), 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 Nations | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Nations | det |
| 4 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 5 Nations | compound |
| 5 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 struggling | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 people | punct |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 10 million | advmod |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 more | fixed |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 million | compound |
| 10 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 people | nummod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 struggling | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Madagascar | case |
| 13 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Madagascar | amod |
| 14 | Madagascar | Madagascar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 people | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 2021 | case |
| 16 | 2021 | 2021 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 people | nmod |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 struggling | aux |
| 18 | struggling | struggle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 get | mark |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 struggling | xcomp |
| 21 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 get | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 eat | mark |
| 23 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 enough | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 become | punct |
| 25 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 29 become | mark |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 due | fixed |
| 27 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 become | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 become | aux |
| 29 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 enough | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 country | det |
| 31 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 famine | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 country | case |
| 33 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 34 famine | amod |
| 34 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 become | xcomp |
| 35 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 famine | acl |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 change | case |
| 37 | climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 change | compound |
| 38 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 caused | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 struggling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | struggle | past · progressive | million people in southern Madagascar in 2021 | accord the United Nations | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | million people in southern Madagascar in 2021 not said here | enough | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enough=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | million people in southern Madagascar in 2021 not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | become | could | the country's first famine | what nsubj | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | cause | participle | the country's first famine not said here | by climate change | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
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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