Antananarivo, sentence 68
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.
They chose Antaninarenina as the site for the French Governor General's Residency; upon independence, it was renamed Ambohitsorohitra Palace and converted into presidential offices.
Who acts: Tananarive, General · What happens: choose, rename, convert, reside · To what, where: Antaninarenina, independence, presidential offices
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 (Tananarive, General), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 chose | nsubj |
| 2 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Antaninarenina | Antaninarenina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 chose | obj |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 site | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 site | det |
| 6 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chose | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 Residency | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 General | det |
| 9 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Governor | compound |
| 10 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 General | nmod:desc |
| 11 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Residency | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 General | case |
| 13 | Residency | residency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 site | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 renamed | punct |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 independence | case |
| 16 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 renamed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 independence | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 renamed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 renamed | aux:pass |
| 20 | renamed | rename | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 chose | conj |
| 21 | Ambohitsorohitra | Ambohitsorohitra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Palace | compound |
| 22 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 renamed | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 converted | cc |
| 24 | converted | convert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 renamed | conj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 offices | case |
| 26 | presidential | presidential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 offices | amod |
| 27 | offices | office | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 converted | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 chose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past | Tananarive | Antaninarenina | as the site for the General French Governor's Residency | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antaninarenina=Theme | |||
| 2 | rename | past · passive | independence | upon independence; Ambohitsorohitra Palace obj | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme palace=Result | ||||
| 3 | convert | participle | into presidential offices result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into office=Result | |||||
| 4 | reside | the General French Governor | nom residency «act transitive»: poss=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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