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title: According to folk legend, the succession of King Andrianjaka after h… — Madagascar · tree and pragmatics
description: According to folk legend, the succession of King Andrianjaka after his father Ralambo was partially the result of the obsession that Andrianjaka's older brother may have had with playing fanorona to the detriment of his other responsibilities. Who acts: older brother. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mada
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# Madagascar, sentence 540

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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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According to folk legend, the succession of King Andrianjaka after his father Ralambo was partially the result of the obsession that Andrianjaka's older brother may have had with playing fanorona to the detriment of his other responsibilities.

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**Who acts:** older brother · **What happens:** accord, be, have, play · **To what, where:** result, obsession, fanorona

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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 (older brother), 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:540
# text = According to folk legend, the succession of King Andrianjaka after his father Ralambo was partially the result of the obsession that Andrianjaka's older brother may have had with playing fanorona to the detriment of his other responsibilities.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	succession	succession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	Andrianjaka	Andrianjaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
14	Ralambo	Ralambo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	partially	partially	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	obsession	obsession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
23	Andrianjaka	Andrianjaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
26	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	_
30	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
32	fanorona	fanorona	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	detriment	detriment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	responsibilities	responsibility	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the result |  |  |  | accord folk legend after omby's father and the succession of King; of the obsession; partially *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | may · perfect | Andrianjaka's older brother | the obsession *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent obsession=Patient |
| 4 | **play** | gerund | Andrianjaka's older brother *not said here* | fanorona |  |  |  | to the detriment of brother's other responsibilities | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fanorona=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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