Antananarivo, sentence 58
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The growing number of Christians in Imerina prompted the construction of stone churches throughout the highlands, as well as four memorial churches on key sites of martyrdom among early Malagasy Christians under the reign of Ranavalona I.
Who acts: growing number · What happens: grow, prompt, construct · To what, where: construction, reign, stone churches
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 (growing number), 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 | 3 number | det |
| 2 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 number | amod |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prompted | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Christians | case |
| 5 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 prompted | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Imerina | case |
| 7 | Imerina | Imerina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Christians | nmod |
| 8 | prompted | prompt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 construction | det |
| 10 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prompted | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 churches | case |
| 12 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 churches | compound |
| 13 | churches | church | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 construction | nmod |
| 14 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 16 highlands | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 highlands | det |
| 16 | highlands | highland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 prompted | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 churches | punct |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 21 four | advmod |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 as | fixed |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 as | fixed |
| 21 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 churches | nummod |
| 22 | memorial | memorial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 churches | amod |
| 23 | churches | church | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 prompted | obl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 sites | case |
| 25 | key | key | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sites | amod |
| 26 | sites | site | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 churches | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 martyrdom | case |
| 28 | martyrdom | martyrdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sites | nmod |
| 29 | among | among | ADP | _ | 32 Christians | case |
| 30 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Malagasy | amod |
| 31 | Malagasy | Malagasy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Christians | compound |
| 32 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 churches | nmod |
| 33 | under | under | ADP | _ | 35 reign | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 reign | det |
| 35 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prompted | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 I. | case |
| 37 | Ranavalona | Ranavalona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 I. | compound |
| 38 | I. | I. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 reign | nmod |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | prompt | past | the growing number | the construction of stone churches | the reign of Ranavalona I. | throughout the highlands | four memorial churches on key sites of martyrdom among Malagasy Christians obl; Christians in Imerina nsubj | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition construction=Patient | |
| 3 | construct | stone churches | nom construction «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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