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title: Hooper writes that Andriandahifotsy re-established relations with hi… — Madagascar · tree and pragmatics
description: Hooper writes that Andriandahifotsy re-established relations with his brothers as the Sakalava came to control Madagascar's west coast and dominate trade. Who acts: Hooper, re-established relations. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Madagascar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Madagascar, sentence 87

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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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Hooper writes that Andriandahifotsy re-established relations with his brothers as the Sakalava came to control Madagascar's west coast and dominate trade.

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**Who acts:** Hooper, re-established relations · **What happens:** write, re-establish, come, control · **To what, where:** west coast

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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 (Hooper, re-established relations), 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:87
# text = Hooper writes that Andriandahifotsy re-established relations with his brothers as the Sakalava came to control Madagascar's west coast and dominate trade.
1	Hooper	Hooper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	writes	write	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
4	Andriandahifotsy	Andriandahifotsy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	re-established	re-establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Sakalava	Sakalava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	control	control	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	west	west	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	dominate	dominant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|Typo=Yes	22	amod	_	_
22	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present | Hooper |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **re-establish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | Andriandahifotsy *compound* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | re-established relations with Hooper's brothers as the Sakalava |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **control** | to-infinitive | re-established relations with Hooper's brothers as the Sakalava *not said here* | Madagascar's west coast and dominate trade |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coast=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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