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title: Power and water cuts, as well as general distrust of Rajoelina's adm… — Madagascar · tree and pragmatics
description: Power and water cuts, as well as general distrust of Rajoelina's administration, sparked a series of protests in 2025 culminating in his flight and impeachment with the military taking control of the country. Who acts: Power, military, Rajoelina. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Madagascar» with its depen
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# Madagascar, sentence 215

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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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Power and water cuts, as well as general distrust of Rajoelina's administration, sparked a series of protests in 2025 culminating in his flight and impeachment with the military taking control of the country.

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**Who acts:** Power, military, Rajoelina · **What happens:** spark, culminate, take, distrust, administer · **To what, where:** series, 2025, flight, control, administration

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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 (Power, military, Rajoelina), 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:215
# text = Power and water cuts, as well as general distrust of Rajoelina's administration, sparked a series of protests in 2025 culminating in his flight and impeachment with the military taking control of the country.
1	Power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cuts	cut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	9	cc	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	fixed	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
9	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	distrust	distrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Rajoelina	Rajoelina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
16	sparked	spark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	protests	protest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	2025	2025	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
23	culminating	culminate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	impeachment	impeachment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	military	military	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
32	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
33	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spark** | past | Power and water cuts and general distrust of Rajoelina's administration | a series of protests |  | 2025 |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition series=Patient |
| 2 | **culminate** | gerund | Power and water cuts and general distrust of Rajoelina's administration *not said here* |  |  | Rajoelina's flight and impeachment |  | with the military | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | the military *not said here* | control of the country |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Theme |
| 4 | **distrust** |  |  | Rajoelina's administration |  |  |  |  | nom distrust «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **administer** |  | Rajoelina |  |  |  |  |  | nom administration «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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