Madagascar, sentence 553
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.
Throughout almost the entire country, Madagascar's contemporary cuisine typically consists of a base of rice (vary) served with an accompaniment (laoka).
Who acts: contemporary cuisine · What happens: consist, vary, serve
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 (contemporary cuisine), 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 | Throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 5 country | case |
| 2 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 5 country | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 country | det |
| 4 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 country | amod |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 consists | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 country | punct |
| 7 | Madagascar | Madagascar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cuisine | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Madagascar | case |
| 9 | contemporary | contemporary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cuisine | amod |
| 10 | cuisine | cuisine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 consists | nsubj |
| 11 | typically | typically | ADV | _ | 12 consists | advmod |
| 12 | consists | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 base | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 base | det |
| 15 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 consists | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 rice | case |
| 17 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 base | nmod |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 vary | punct |
| 19 | vary | vary | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 consists | conj |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 vary | punct |
| 21 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 vary | xcomp |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 accompaniment | case |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 accompaniment | det |
| 24 | accompaniment | accompaniment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 served | obl |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 laoka | punct |
| 26 | laoka | laoka | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 accompaniment | appos |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 laoka | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 consists | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | present | Madagascar's contemporary cuisine | throughout the entire country | of a base of rice; typically property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | vary | infinitive | Madagascar's contemporary cuisine not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | serve | participle | Madagascar's contemporary cuisine not said here | with a accompaniment | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with accompaniment=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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