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title: The British diplomats who concluded trade treaties with Radama recog… — Antananarivo · tree and pragmatics
description: The British diplomats who concluded trade treaties with Radama recognized him as the "ruler of Madagascar", a position he and his successors claimed despite never managing to impose their authority over the larger portion of the island's south. Who acts: British diplomats, Radama. A sentence of Wiki
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# Antananarivo, sentence 49

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From Wikipedia, [«Antananarivo»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antananarivo), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The British diplomats who concluded trade treaties with Radama recognized him as the "ruler of Madagascar", a position he and his successors claimed despite never managing to impose their authority over the larger portion of the island's south.

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**Who acts:** British diplomats, Radama · **What happens:** conclude, recognize, claim, not manage, not impose · **To what, where:** trade treaties, Radama, position, authority, larger portion

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Antananarivo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (British diplomats, Radama), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Antananarivo:49
# text = The British diplomats who concluded trade treaties with Radama recognized him as the "ruler of Madagascar", a position he and his successors claimed despite never managing to impose their authority over the larger portion of the island's south.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	diplomats	diplomat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	concluded	conclude	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	treaties	treaty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Radama	Radama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	recognized	recognize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	successors	successor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
26	claimed	claim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
27	despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	managing	manage	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	impose	impose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	authority	authority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	over	over	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	amod	_	_
37	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	's	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conclude** | past | the British diplomats | trade treaties |  |  |  | with Radama | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector treaty=Eventuality with radama=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **recognize** | past | the British diplomats | Radama |  |  |  | as the ruler of Madagascar | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus as ruler=Attribute |
| 3 | **claim** *speech: other* | past | Radama | a position *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent position=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **manage** | gerund | Radama *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **not** **impose** | to-infinitive | Radama *not said here* | diplomats's authority |  | the larger portion of the island's south |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent authority=Theme |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Antananarivo», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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