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description: Throughout almost the entire country, Madagascar's contemporary cuisine typically consists of a base of rice (vary) served with an accompaniment (laoka). Who acts: contemporary cuisine. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Madagascar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Madagascar, sentence 553

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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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Throughout almost the entire country, Madagascar's contemporary cuisine typically consists of a base of rice (vary) served with an accompaniment (laoka).

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**Who acts:** contemporary cuisine · **What happens:** consist, vary, serve

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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 (contemporary cuisine), 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:553
# text = Throughout almost the entire country, Madagascar's contemporary cuisine typically consists of a base of rice (vary) served with an accompaniment (laoka).
1	Throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	contemporary	contemporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cuisine	cuisine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	typically	typically	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	consists	consist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	vary	vary	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
21	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	xcomp	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	accompaniment	accompaniment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	laoka	laoka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consist** | present | Madagascar's contemporary cuisine |  |  |  | throughout the entire country | of a base of rice; typically *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **vary** | infinitive | Madagascar's contemporary cuisine *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **serve** | participle | Madagascar's contemporary cuisine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a accompaniment | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with accompaniment=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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