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title: Another attack destroyed the colony and resulted in the killing of F… — Madagascar · tree and pragmatics
description: Another attack destroyed the colony and resulted in the killing of French settlers who remained in 1674. Who acts: attack, French settlers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Madagascar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Madagascar, sentence 95

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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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Another attack destroyed the colony and resulted in the killing of French settlers who remained in 1674.

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**Who acts:** attack, French settlers · **What happens:** destroy, result, remain, kill · **To what, where:** colony, killing, 1674, French settlers

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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 (attack, French settlers), 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:95
# text = Another attack destroyed the colony and resulted in the killing of French settlers who remained in 1674.
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	resulted	result	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	killing	killing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	settlers	settler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	1674	1674	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **destroy** | past | another attack | the colony |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colony=Patient |
| 2 | **result** | participle | another attack *not said here* |  |  | the killing of French settlers |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in killing=Location |
| 3 | **remain** | past | French settlers |  |  | 1674 |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1674=Location |
| 4 | **kill** |  |  | French settlers |  |  |  |  | nom killing «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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