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# Madagascar, sentence 34

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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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This would have resulted from the 13th-century Venetian explorer Marco Polo's confusion of the two locations in his memoirs, in which he mentions the land of Madageiscar to the south of Socotra.

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**Who acts:** This, Madagascar, Marco · **What happens:** result, mention, confuse · **To what, where:** century Venetian explorer, land, south, two locations

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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 (This, Madagascar, Marco), 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:34
# text = This would have resulted from the 13th-century Venetian explorer Marco Polo's confusion of the two locations in his memoirs, in which he mentions the land of Madageiscar to the south of Socotra.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	resulted	result	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
7	13th	13th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	Venetian	venetian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	explorer	explorer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	Marco	Marco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	Polo	Polo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
15	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	locations	location	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	memoirs	memoir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	mentions	mention	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Madageiscar	Madageiscar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Socotra	Socotra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **result** | would · perfect | This |  |  | the century Venetian explorer and Marco's confusion of the two locations in Marco's memoirs |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **mention** *speech: other* | present | Madagascar | the land of Madageiscar | the south of Socotra |  |  | which *obl* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent land=Topic to south=Recipient |
| 3 | **confuse** |  | Marco | the two locations in Marco's memoirs |  |  |  |  | nom confusion «state transitive»: poss=agent 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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