Madagascar, sentence 66
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.
The period from 1500 to 1800 saw Madagascar's populations go from being mobile and unsettled to being organized largely into states.
Who acts: period, populations · What happens: see, go, be, organize · To what, where: states · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (period, populations), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 period | det |
| 2 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 1500 | case |
| 4 | 1500 | 1500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 period | nmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 1800 | case |
| 6 | 1800 | 1800 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 1500 | nmod |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Madagascar | Madagascar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 populations | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Madagascar | case |
| 10 | populations | population | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 go | nsubj |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | ccomp |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 mobile | case |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 mobile | cop |
| 14 | mobile | mobile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 go | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 unsettled | cc |
| 16 | unsettled | unsettled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mobile | conj |
| 17 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 19 organized | mark |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 organized | aux:pass |
| 19 | organized | organize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 unsettled | advcl |
| 20 | largely | largely | ADV | _ | 19 organized | advmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 states | case |
| 22 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 organized | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the period from 1500 to 1800 | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | go | present | Madagascar's populations | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | gerund | mobile property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 5 | organize | gerund · passive | states | largely property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP» |
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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