---
title: Irish author Dervla Murphy described the cityscape on a 1983 visit,… — Antananarivo · tree and pragmatics
description: Irish author Dervla Murphy described the cityscape on a 1983 visit, as she went in search of the Zoma market, where the "arms of Tana's Y-mountain diverge": Who acts: Irish author, Dervla. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Antananarivo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Antananarivo/147/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Antananarivo](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Antananarivo/) / 147

# Antananarivo, sentence 147

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Irish author Dervla Murphy described the cityscape on a 1983 visit, as she went in search of the Zoma market, where the "arms of Tana's Y-mountain diverge":

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Irish author, Dervla · **What happens:** describe, go, search · **To what, where:** cityscape, 1983 visit, search, Zoma market

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Irish author, Dervla), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:147
# text = Irish author Dervla Murphy described the cityscape on a 1983 visit, as she went in search of the Zoma market, where the "arms of Tana's Y-mountain diverge":
1	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Dervla	Dervla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Murphy	Murphy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	described	describe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cityscape	cityscape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	1983	1983	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Zoma	Zoma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
28	Tana	Tana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	Y	Y	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	diverge	diverge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | past | Irish author | the cityscape |  | a 1983 visit |  | Dervla *nsubj* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent cityscape=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | Dervla |  |  | search of the Zoma market |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location |
| 3 | **search** |  |  | the Zoma market |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Antananarivo/146/)
- next →: [sentence 148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Antananarivo/148/)
- ↑ back to [Antananarivo](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Antananarivo/)