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title: Malagasy troops fought for France in World War I. In the 1930s, Nazi… — Madagascar · tree and pragmatics
description: Malagasy troops fought for France in World War I. In the 1930s, Nazi political thinkers developed the Madagascar Plan that had identified the island as a potential site for the deportation of Europe's Jews. Who acts: Malagasy troops, Nazi political thinkers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Madagascar» wi
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# Madagascar, sentence 171

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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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Malagasy troops fought for France in World War I. In the 1930s, Nazi political thinkers developed the Madagascar Plan that had identified the island as a potential site for the deportation of Europe's Jews.

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**Who acts:** Malagasy troops, Nazi political thinkers · **What happens:** fight, develop, identify, deport · **To what, where:** World War I., Madagascar Plan, Jews

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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 (Malagasy troops, Nazi political thinkers), 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:171
# text = Malagasy troops fought for France in World War I. In the 1930s, Nazi political thinkers developed the Madagascar Plan that had identified the island as a potential site for the deportation of Europe's Jews.
1	Malagasy	malagasy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	I.	I.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	In	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	1930s	1930	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	Nazi	Nazi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	thinkers	thinker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	developed	develop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	identified	identify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	potential	potential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	deportation	deportation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past | Malagasy troops |  |  | World War I. |  | for France; in the 1930s | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **develop** | past | Nazi political thinkers | the Madagascar Plan |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Product |
| 3 | **identify** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Madagascar Plan |  |  |  | as a potential site; for the deportation of Europe's Jews; the island *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **deport** |  |  | Europe's Jews |  |  |  |  | nom deportation «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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