Antananarivo, sentence 184
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.
Much of this marginal land has been illegally occupied and developed by land-seeking residents, creating shantytown slums in pockets throughout the lower portions of the city.
Who acts: Much · What happens: be, develop, seek, create · To what, where: shantytown slums, pockets
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 (Much), 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 | Much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 occupied | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 land | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 land | det |
| 4 | marginal | marginal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 land | amod |
| 5 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Much | nmod |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 occupied | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 occupied | cop |
| 8 | illegally | illegally | ADV | _ | 9 occupied | advmod |
| 9 | occupied | occupied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 developed | cc |
| 11 | developed | develop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 occupied | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 residents | case |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seeking | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 land | punct |
| 15 | seeking | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 residents | amod |
| 16 | residents | resident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 developed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 creating | punct |
| 18 | creating | create | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 developed | advcl |
| 19 | shantytown | shantytown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 slums | compound |
| 20 | slums | slum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 creating | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 pockets | case |
| 22 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 creating | obl | |
| 23 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 26 portions | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 portions | det |
| 25 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 portions | amod |
| 26 | portions | portion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 creating | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 city | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 city | det |
| 29 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 portions | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 occupied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | Much of this marginal land | illegally, occupied property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | develop | participle | Much of this marginal land not said here | by seeking residents | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by resident=Location | ||||
| 3 | seek | gerund | land compound | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | create | gerund | Much of this marginal land not said here | shantytown slums | pockets | throughout the lower portions of the city | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slum=Result |
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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