Madagascar, sentence 540
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 folk legend, the succession of King Andrianjaka after his father Ralambo was partially the result of the obsession that Andrianjaka's older brother may have had with playing fanorona to the detriment of his other responsibilities.
Who acts: older brother · What happens: accord, be, have, play · To what, where: result, obsession, fanorona
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 (older brother), 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 | 4 legend | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 legend | compound |
| 4 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 result | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 succession | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 succession | det |
| 7 | succession | succession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 legend | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 King | case |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 succession | nmod |
| 10 | Andrianjaka | Andrianjaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 King | flat |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 father | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 legend | nmod |
| 14 | Ralambo | Ralambo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 father | appos |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 result | cop |
| 16 | partially | partially | ADV | _ | 18 result | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 result | det |
| 18 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 obsession | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 obsession | det |
| 21 | obsession | obsession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 result | nmod |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 had | mark |
| 23 | Andrianjaka | Andrianjaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 brother | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Andrianjaka | case |
| 25 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 brother | amod |
| 26 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 had | nsubj |
| 27 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 had | aux |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 had | aux |
| 29 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 obsession | acl:relcl |
| 30 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 31 playing | mark |
| 31 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 had | advcl |
| 32 | fanorona | fanorona | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 playing | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 detriment | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 detriment | det |
| 35 | detriment | detriment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 playing | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 responsibilities | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 responsibilities | nmod:poss |
| 38 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 responsibilities | amod |
| 39 | responsibilities | responsibility | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 detriment | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 result | 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 | is a | past | the result | accord folk legend after omby's father and the succession of King; of the obsession; partially property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | may · perfect | Andrianjaka's older brother | the obsession not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent obsession=Patient | ||||
| 4 | play | gerund | Andrianjaka's older brother not said here | fanorona | to the detriment of brother's other responsibilities | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fanorona=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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