Madagascar, sentence 48
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 has been proposed that Ma'anyan people were brought as laborers and slaves by Javan and Sumatran-Malays in their trading fleets to Madagascar.
Who acts: Javan · What happens: propose, bring · To what, where: settlement, Ma'anyan people, Madagascar, trading fleets
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 (Javan), 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 proposed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 proposed | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 proposed | aux:pass |
| 4 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 brought | mark |
| 6 | Ma'anyan | Ma'anyan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 people | compound |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 brought | aux:pass |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 proposed | advcl |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 laborers | case |
| 11 | laborers | laborer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 brought | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 slaves | cc |
| 13 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 laborers | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 Javan | case |
| 15 | Javan | Javan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Malays | cc |
| 17 | Sumatran | Sumatran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Malays | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Sumatran | punct |
| 19 | Malays | malay | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Javan | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 fleets | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 fleets | nmod:poss |
| 22 | trading | trading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fleets | compound |
| 23 | fleets | fleet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 brought | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Madagascar | case |
| 25 | Madagascar | Madagascar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 proposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | propose | present · perfect · passive | settlement | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bring | past · passive | Javan and Sumatran Malays | Ma'anyan people | Madagascar | peoples's trading fleets | as laborers and slaves | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to madagascar=Destination |
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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