Antananarivo, sentence 147
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.
Irish author Dervla Murphy described the cityscape on a 1983 visit, as she went in search of the Zoma market, where the "arms of Tana's Y-mountain diverge":
Who acts: Irish author, Dervla · What happens: describe, go, search · To what, where: cityscape, 1983 visit, search, Zoma market
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 (Irish author, Dervla), 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 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 author | amod |
| 2 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 described | nsubj |
| 3 | Dervla | Dervla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 described | nsubj |
| 4 | Murphy | Murphy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Dervla | flat |
| 5 | described | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cityscape | det |
| 7 | cityscape | cityscape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 described | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 visit | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 visit | det |
| 10 | 1983 | 1983 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 visit | nummod |
| 11 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 described | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 went | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 described | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 search | case |
| 17 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 market | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 market | det |
| 20 | Zoma | Zoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 market | compound |
| 21 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 search | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 where | punct |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 market | acl:relcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 arms | det |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 arms | punct |
| 26 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 where | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 diverge | case |
| 28 | Tana | Tana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 diverge | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 Tana | case |
| 30 | Y | Y | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 diverge | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Y | punct |
| 32 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 diverge | compound |
| 33 | diverge | diverge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 arms | nmod |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 diverge | punct |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 described | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | past | Irish author | the cityscape | a 1983 visit | Dervla nsubj | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cityscape=Theme | ||
| 2 | go | past | Dervla | search of the Zoma market | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location | ||||
| 3 | search | the Zoma market | nom search «act 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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