Madagascar, sentence 87
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Hooper writes that Andriandahifotsy re-established relations with his brothers as the Sakalava came to control Madagascar's west coast and dominate trade.
Who acts: Hooper, re-established relations · What happens: write, re-establish, come, control · To what, where: west coast
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 (Hooper, re-established relations), 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 | Hooper | Hooper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 writes | nsubj |
| 2 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 came | mark |
| 4 | Andriandahifotsy | Andriandahifotsy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 re-established | compound |
| 5 | re-established | re-establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 relations | amod |
| 6 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 came | nsubj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 brothers | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 relations | nmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 Sakalava | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sakalava | det |
| 12 | Sakalava | Sakalava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 brothers | nmod |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 writes | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 control | mark |
| 15 | control | control | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 came | xcomp |
| 16 | Madagascar | Madagascar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 coast | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Madagascar | case |
| 18 | west | west | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 coast | amod |
| 19 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 control | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 trade | cc |
| 21 | dominate | dominant | ADJ | Degree=Pos Typo=Yes | 22 trade | amod |
| 22 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 coast | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 writes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present | Hooper | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | re-establish | participle | Andriandahifotsy compound | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | come | past | re-established relations with Hooper's brothers as the Sakalava | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | control | to-infinitive | re-established relations with Hooper's brothers as the Sakalava not said here | Madagascar's west coast and dominate trade | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coast=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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