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title: King Andrianampoinimerina established the city's first marketplace o… — Antananarivo · tree and pragmatics
description: King Andrianampoinimerina established the city's first marketplace on the grounds today occupied by the market's tile-roofed pavilions, constructed in the 1930s. Who acts: King. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Antananarivo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Antananarivo, sentence 131

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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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King Andrianampoinimerina established the city's first marketplace on the grounds today occupied by the market's tile-roofed pavilions, constructed in the 1930s.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** establish, occupy, roof, construct · **To what, where:** first marketplace, grounds, today, roofed pavilions, 1930s

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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 (King), 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:131
# text = King Andrianampoinimerina established the city's first marketplace on the grounds today occupied by the market's tile-roofed pavilions, constructed in the 1930s.
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Andrianampoinimerina	Andrianampoinimerina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	established	establish	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	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	marketplace	marketplace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	grounds	grounds	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	obl	_	_
12	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	tile	tile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	roofed	roof	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	pavilions	pavilion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	constructed	construct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	1930s	1930	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | past | King | the city's first marketplace |  | the grounds | today |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent marketplace=Theme on grounds=Source |
| 2 | **occupy** | participle |  | today *not said here* |  |  |  | by the market's roofed pavilions | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **roof** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | tile *compound* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **construct** | participle |  | the market's roofed pavilions *not said here* |  | the 1930s |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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