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title: Fage, J. D.; Flint, J. E.; Oliver, R. A. (1986). " — Madagascar · tree and pragmatics
description: Fage, J. D.; Flint, J. E.; Oliver, R. A. (1986). " A sentence of Wikipedia's «Madagascar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Madagascar, sentence 614

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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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Fage, J. D.; Flint, J. E.; Oliver, R. A. (1986). "

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**To what, where:** Fage

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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:614
# text = Fage, J. D.; Flint, J. E.; Oliver, R. A. (1986). "
1	Fage	Fage	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	J.	J.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	D.	D.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Flint	Flint	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	J.	J.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	E.	E.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	R.	R.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	A.	A.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	1986	1986	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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