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title: Since this time, the Malagasy military has never engaged in armed co… — Madagascar · tree and pragmatics
description: Since this time, the Malagasy military has never engaged in armed conflict with another state or within its own borders, but has occasionally intervened to restore order during periods of political unrest. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Madagascar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Madagascar, sentence 329

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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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Since this time, the Malagasy military has never engaged in armed conflict with another state or within its own borders, but has occasionally intervened to restore order during periods of political unrest.

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**What happens:** not engage, intervene, restore · **To what, where:** Malagasy military, armed conflict, order

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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: 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:329
# text = Since this time, the Malagasy military has never engaged in armed conflict with another state or within its own borders, but has occasionally intervened to restore order during periods of political unrest.
1	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Malagasy	Malagasy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	military	military	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	engaged	engage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	within	within	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	occasionally	occasionally	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	intervened	intervene	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	restore	restore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	during	during	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	periods	period	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	unrest	unrest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **not** **engage** | present · perfect · passive |  | the Malagasy military |  |  | time | in armed conflict with another state or military's own borders *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme in conflict=Goal |
| 2 | **intervene** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | occasionally *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **restore** | to-infinitive |  | order |  |  | during periods of political unrest |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent order=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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