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# Madagascar, sentence 1

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From Wikipedia, [«Madagascar»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar), 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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Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, is an island country in the Indian Ocean that includes the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands.

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**Who acts:** Madagascar, that · **What happens:** be, include · **To what, where:** island country, Indian Ocean, island

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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 (Madagascar, that), 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:Madagascar:1
# text = Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, is an island country in the Indian Ocean that includes the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands.
1	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	includes	include	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
26	peripheral	peripheral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Madagascar | a island country |  | the Indian Ocean |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **include** | present | that | the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=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, «Madagascar», 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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