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title: Dates of settlement of the island earlier than the mid-first millenn… — Madagascar · tree and pragmatics
description: Dates of settlement of the island earlier than the mid-first millennium CE are not strongly supported; however, there is scattered evidence for much earlier human visits and presence. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Madagascar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Madagascar, sentence 49

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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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Dates of settlement of the island earlier than the mid-first millennium CE are not strongly supported; however, there is scattered evidence for much earlier human visits and presence.

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**What happens:** not support, scatter · **To what, where:** island, Dates

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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:49
# text = Dates of settlement of the island earlier than the mid-first millennium CE are not strongly supported; however, there is scattered evidence for much earlier human visits and presence.
1	Dates	date	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	mid-first	mid-first	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	millennium	millennium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	CE	ce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	strongly	strongly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	supported	support	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
18	however	however	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
23	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	much	much	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
27	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **support** | present · passive |  | the island *not said here* |  |  |  | than the mid-first millennium CE; early, strongly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |
| 2 | **scatter** | present · passive |  | Dates of settlement of the island |  |  |  | for human visits and presence; evidence *xcomp* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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