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title: With 592800 km2, Madagascar is the world's 46th-largest country, the… — Madagascar · tree and pragmatics
description: With 592800 km2, Madagascar is the world's 46th-largest country, the second-largest island country and the fourth-largest island. Who acts: Madagascar. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Madagascar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Madagascar, sentence 217

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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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With 592800 km2, Madagascar is the world's 46th-largest country, the second-largest island country and the fourth-largest island.

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**Who acts:** Madagascar · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 46th

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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), 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:217
# text = With 592800 km2, Madagascar is the world's 46th-largest country, the second-largest island country and the fourth-largest island.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	592800	592800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	km2	km2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	46th	46th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
16	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
19	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
26	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | the world's 46th and largest country and the second largest island country and the fourth largest island |  |  |  | the world *nmod:poss*; largest country *conj*; the second largest island country *conj*; the fourth largest island *conj* | tree rules |

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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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