Antananarivo, sentence 13
From Wikipedia, «Antananarivo», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The city retained the name Analamanga until the reign of King Andriamasinavalona (1675–1710), who renamed it Antananarivo ("City of the Thousand") in honor of Andrianjaka's soldiers.
Who acts: city, reign · What happens: retain, rename, honor · To what, where: name, Antananarivo, honor, soldiers
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Antananarivo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, reign), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 retained | nsubj |
| 3 | retained | retain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 name | det |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 retained | obj |
| 6 | Analamanga | Analamanga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 name | appos |
| 7 | until | until | ADP | _ | 9 reign | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 reign | det |
| 9 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 retained | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 King | case |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 reign | nmod |
| 12 | Andriamasinavalona | Andriamasinavalona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 King | flat |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 1675 | punct |
| 14 | 1675 | 1675 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 King | appos |
| 15 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 16 1710 | case |
| 16 | 1710 | 1710 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 1675 | nmod |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 1675 | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 renamed | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 renamed | nsubj |
| 20 | renamed | rename | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 reign | acl:relcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 Antananarivo | nsubj |
| 22 | Antananarivo | Antananarivo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 renamed | obj |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 City | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 City | punct |
| 25 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Antananarivo | appos |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Thousand | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Thousand | det |
| 28 | Thousand | Thousand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 City | nmod |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 City | punct |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 City | punct |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 honor | case |
| 32 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 renamed | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 soldiers | case |
| 34 | Andrianjaka | Andrianjaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 soldiers | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 Andrianjaka | case |
| 36 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 honor | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 retained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retain | past | the city | the name | until the reign of King | tree rules | |||
| 2 | rename | past | the reign of King | Antananarivo city | honor of Andrianjaka's soldiers | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent antananarivo=Result | |||
| 3 | honor | Andrianjaka's soldiers | nom honor «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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