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title: The city retained the name Analamanga until the reign of King Andria… — Antananarivo · tree and pragmatics
description: The city retained the name Analamanga until the reign of King Andriamasinavalona (1675–1710), who renamed it Antananarivo ("City of the Thousand") in honor of Andrianjaka's soldiers. Who acts: city, reign. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Antananarivo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Antananarivo, sentence 13

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From Wikipedia, [«Antananarivo»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antananarivo), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The city retained the name Analamanga until the reign of King Andriamasinavalona (1675–1710), who renamed it Antananarivo ("City of the Thousand") in honor of Andrianjaka's soldiers.

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**Who acts:** city, reign · **What happens:** retain, rename, honor · **To what, where:** name, Antananarivo, honor, soldiers

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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 (city, reign), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Antananarivo:13
# text = The city retained the name Analamanga until the reign of King Andriamasinavalona (1675–1710), who renamed it Antananarivo ("City of the Thousand") in honor of Andrianjaka's soldiers.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	retained	retain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	Analamanga	Analamanga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	until	until	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	reign	reign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	Andriamasinavalona	Andriamasinavalona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	1675	1675	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	16	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	1710	1710	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	renamed	rename	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	Antananarivo	Antananarivo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Thousand	Thousand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	Andrianjaka	Andrianjaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retain** | past | the city | the name |  |  | until the reign of King |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rename** | past | the reign of King | Antananarivo  city |  | honor of Andrianjaka's soldiers |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent antananarivo=Result |
| 3 | **honor** |  |  | Andrianjaka's soldiers |  |  |  |  | nom honor «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Antananarivo», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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