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title: An English state paper in 1699 records the arrival of 80 to 90 passe… — Madagascar · tree and pragmatics
description: An English state paper in 1699 records the arrival of 80 to 90 passengers from "Malagaskar" to what eventually became New York City. Who acts: English state paper, 80 passengers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Madagascar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Madagascar, sentence 42

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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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An English state paper in 1699 records the arrival of 80 to 90 passengers from "Malagaskar" to what eventually became New York City.

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**Who acts:** English state paper, 80 passengers · **What happens:** record, become, arrive · **To what, where:** arrival

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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 (English state paper, 80 passengers), 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:42
# text = An English state paper in 1699 records the arrival of 80 to 90 passengers from "Malagaskar" to what eventually became New York City.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1699	1699	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
7	records	record	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	90	90	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nmod	_	_
14	passengers	passenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Malagaskar	Malagaskar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nmod	_	_
21	eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
24	York	York	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **record** | present | a English state paper in 1699 | the arrival of 80 passengers from Malagaskar to the arrival of 80 passengers from Malagaskar to the arrival |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrival=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past |  |  |  |  |  | York City *xcomp*; eventually *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **arrive** |  | 80 passengers from Malagaskar to the arrival of 80 passengers from Malagaskar to the arrival of 80 passengers |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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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