Madagascar, sentence 95
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.
Another attack destroyed the colony and resulted in the killing of French settlers who remained in 1674.
Who acts: attack, French settlers · What happens: destroy, result, remain, kill · To what, where: colony, killing, 1674, French settlers
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 (attack, French settlers), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 attack | det |
| 2 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 destroyed | nsubj |
| 3 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 colony | det |
| 5 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 destroyed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 resulted | cc |
| 7 | resulted | result | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 destroyed | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 killing | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 killing | det |
| 10 | killing | killing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 resulted | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 settlers | case |
| 12 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 settlers | amod |
| 13 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 killing | nmod |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 remained | nsubj |
| 15 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 settlers | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 1674 | case |
| 17 | 1674 | 1674 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 remained | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 destroyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | past | another attack | the colony | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colony=Patient | ||||
| 2 | result | participle | another attack not said here | the killing of French settlers | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in killing=Location | ||||
| 3 | remain | past | French settlers | 1674 | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1674=Location | ||||
| 4 | kill | French settlers | nom killing «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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