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title: The period from 1500 to 1800 saw Madagascar's populations go from be… — Madagascar · tree and pragmatics
description: The period from 1500 to 1800 saw Madagascar's populations go from being mobile and unsettled to being organized largely into states. Who acts: period, populations. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Madagascar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Madagascar, sentence 66

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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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The period from 1500 to 1800 saw Madagascar's populations go from being mobile and unsettled to being organized largely into states.

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**Who acts:** period, populations · **What happens:** see, go, be, organize · **To what, where:** states · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (period, populations), 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:66
# text = The period from 1500 to 1800 saw Madagascar's populations go from being mobile and unsettled to being organized largely into states.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	1500	1500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1800	1800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	populations	population	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	_
14	mobile	mobile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	unsettled	unsettled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	organized	organize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
20	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the period from 1500 to 1800 |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go** | present | Madagascar's populations |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | mobile *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **organize** | gerund · passive |  |  |  | states |  | largely *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP» |

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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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