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title: Newer arrivals formed marriage alliances with the tompontany, facili… — Madagascar · tree and pragmatics
description: Newer arrivals formed marriage alliances with the tompontany, facilitating their gradual assimilation. Who acts: Newer arrivals, alliances. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Madagascar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Madagascar, sentence 53

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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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Newer arrivals formed marriage alliances with the tompontany, facilitating their gradual assimilation.

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**Who acts:** Newer arrivals, alliances · **What happens:** form, facilitate, assimilate · **To what, where:** marriage alliances, gradual assimilation

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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 (Newer arrivals, alliances), 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:53
# text = Newer arrivals formed marriage alliances with the tompontany, facilitating their gradual assimilation.
1	Newer	new	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	arrivals	arrival	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	alliances	alliance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tompontany	tompontany	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	facilitating	facilitate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	gradual	gradual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	assimilation	assimilation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | past | Newer arrivals | marriage alliances |  |  |  | with the tompontany | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location alliance=Theme |
| 2 | **facilitate** | gerund | Newer arrivals *not said here* | alliances's gradual assimilation |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **assimilate** |  | alliances *= alliance* |  |  |  |  |  | nom assimilation «state transitive»: poss=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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