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title: Fifty-one seats of deputies were independent or represented small pa… — Madagascar · tree and pragmatics
description: Fifty-one seats of deputies were independent or represented small parties. Who acts: one seats. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Madagascar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Madagascar, sentence 210

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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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Fifty-one seats of deputies were independent or represented small parties.

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**Who acts:** one seats · **What happens:** be, represent · **To what, where:** small parties

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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 (one seats), 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:210
# text = Fifty-one seats of deputies were independent or represented small parties.
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	deputies	deputy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | one seats of deputies |  |  |  |  | independent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **represent** | participle | one seats of deputies *not said here* | small parties |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot party=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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