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title: The name Madageiscar was first recorded in the memoirs of 13th-centu… — Mogadishu · tree and pragmatics
description: The name Madageiscar was first recorded in the memoirs of 13th-century Venetian explorer Marco Polo as a corrupted transliteration of the name Mogadishu, the famous port with which Polo had confused the island. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mogadishu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mogadishu, sentence 74

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From Wikipedia, [«Mogadishu»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogadishu), 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 name Madageiscar was first recorded in the memoirs of 13th-century Venetian explorer Marco Polo as a corrupted transliteration of the name Mogadishu, the famous port with which Polo had confused the island.

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**What happens:** record, corrupt, confuse, transliterate · **To what, where:** name, memoirs, Polo

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mogadishu». 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:Mogadishu:74
# text = The name Madageiscar was first recorded in the memoirs of 13th-century Venetian explorer Marco Polo as a corrupted transliteration of the name Mogadishu, the famous port with which Polo had confused the island.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	Madageiscar	Madageiscar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
6	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	memoirs	memoir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	13th	13th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	Venetian	venetian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	explorer	explorer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
16	Marco	Marco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	Polo	Polo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	corrupted	corrupt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	transliteration	transliteration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	Mogadishu	Mogadishu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obl	_	_
32	Polo	Polo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	confused	confuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **record** | past · passive |  | the name |  | the memoirs of century Venetian explorer |  | as a corrupted transliteration of the name and the famous port; first *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in memoir=Destination |
| 2 | **corrupt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **confuse** | past · perfect · passive |  | Polo |  |  |  | with the famous port; the island *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer island=Result |
| 4 | **transliterate** |  |  | the name |  |  |  |  | nom transliteration «communication 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, «Mogadishu», 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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