Antananarivo, sentence 131
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.
King Andrianampoinimerina established the city's first marketplace on the grounds today occupied by the market's tile-roofed pavilions, constructed in the 1930s.
Who acts: King · What happens: establish, occupy, roof, construct · To what, where: first marketplace, grounds, today, roofed pavilions, 1930s
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 (King), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 established | nsubj |
| 2 | Andrianampoinimerina | Andrianampoinimerina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | established | establish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 city | det |
| 5 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 marketplace | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 city | case |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 marketplace | amod |
| 8 | marketplace | marketplace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 established | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 grounds | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 grounds | det |
| 11 | grounds | grounds | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 established | obl |
| 12 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 established | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | occupied | occupy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 today | acl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 pavilions | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 market | det |
| 16 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pavilions | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 market | case |
| 18 | tile | tile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 roofed | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 tile | punct |
| 20 | roofed | roof | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 pavilions | amod |
| 21 | pavilions | pavilion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 occupied | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 constructed | punct |
| 23 | constructed | construct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 pavilions | acl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 1930s | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 1930s | det |
| 26 | 1930s | 1930 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 23 constructed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 established | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | establish | past | King | the city's first marketplace | the grounds | today | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent marketplace=Theme on grounds=Source | ||
| 2 | occupy | participle | today not said here | by the market's roofed pavilions | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | roof | participle | tile compound | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | construct | participle | the market's roofed pavilions not said here | the 1930s | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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