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title: Veneration of ancestors has led to the widespread tradition of tomb-… — Madagascar · tree and pragmatics
description: Veneration of ancestors has led to the widespread tradition of tomb-building as well as the Highlands practice of the famadihana, whereby a deceased family member's remains are exhumed and re-wrapped in fresh silk shrouds, before being replaced in the tomb. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Madagascar» wit
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# Madagascar, sentence 442

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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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Veneration of ancestors has led to the widespread tradition of tomb-building as well as the Highlands practice of the famadihana, whereby a deceased family member's remains are exhumed and re-wrapped in fresh silk shrouds, before being replaced in the tomb.

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**What happens:** lead, decease, exhume, re-wrapp, replace, practice · **To what, where:** Veneration, widespread tradition, remains, fresh silk shrouds, tomb, famadihana

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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:442
# text = Veneration of ancestors has led to the widespread tradition of tomb-building as well as the Highlands practice of the famadihana, whereby a deceased family member's remains are exhumed and re-wrapped in fresh silk shrouds, before being replaced in the tomb.
1	Veneration	Veneration	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	widespread	widespread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	19	cc	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	fixed	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Highlands	Highland	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	compound	_	_
19	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	famadihana	famadihana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
24	whereby	whereby	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	deceased	decease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
27	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	remains	remains	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	exhumed	exhume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	re-wrapped	re-wrapp	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	conj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	shrouds	shroud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	replaced	replace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | present · perfect · passive |  | Veneration of ancestors |  | the widespread tradition of tomb building as the Highlands practice of the famadihana |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to tradition=Destination |
| 2 | **decease** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **exhume** | present · passive |  | a deceased family member's remains |  |  |  | whereby *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **re-wrapp** | participle |  |  |  | fresh silk shrouds |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **replace** | gerund · passive |  |  |  | the tomb |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-theme» |
| 6 | **practice** |  |  | the famadihana |  |  |  |  | nom practice «act transitive»: 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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