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title: The economy, however, had grown since 2011, with GDP growth exceedin… — Madagascar · tree and pragmatics
description: The economy, however, had grown since 2011, with GDP growth exceeding 4% per year. Who acts: economy, GDP growth. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Madagascar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Madagascar, sentence 358

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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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The economy, however, had grown since 2011, with GDP growth exceeding 4% per year.

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**Who acts:** economy, GDP growth · **What happens:** grow, exceed

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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 (economy, GDP growth), 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:358
# text = The economy, however, had grown since 2011, with GDP growth exceeding 4% per year.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	since	since	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	2011	2011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	GDP	gdp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	exceeding	exceed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	per	per	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past · perfect | the economy |  |  |  | since 2011 | with GDP growth; however *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **exceed** | gerund | GDP growth *not said here* |  |  |  | per year |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot %=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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