Madagascar, sentence 49
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Dates of settlement of the island earlier than the mid-first millennium CE are not strongly supported; however, there is scattered evidence for much earlier human visits and presence.
What happens: not support, scatter · To what, where: island, Dates
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 | Dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 settlement | case |
| 3 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dates | nmod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 island | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 island | det |
| 6 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 settlement | nmod |
| 7 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 supported | advmod |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 CE | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 CE | det |
| 10 | mid-first | mid-first | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 CE | compound |
| 11 | millennium | millennium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 CE | compound |
| 12 | CE | ce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 supported | obl |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 supported | aux:pass |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 supported | advmod |
| 15 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 16 supported | advmod |
| 16 | supported | support | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 island | acl:relcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dates | punct |
| 18 | however | however | ADV | _ | 21 is | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 however | punct |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 is | expl |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 scattered | aux:pass |
| 22 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 23 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 scattered | xcomp |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 visits | case |
| 25 | much | much | ADV | _ | 26 earlier | advmod |
| 26 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 visits | advmod |
| 27 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 visits | amod |
| 28 | visits | visit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 scattered | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 presence | cc |
| 30 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 visits | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 scattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not support | present · passive | the island not said here | than the mid-first millennium CE; early, strongly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | ||||
| 2 | scatter | present · passive | Dates of settlement of the island | for human visits and presence; evidence xcomp | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
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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