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title: Since 1993, the Commune urbaine d'Antananarivo (CUA) has increasingl… — Antananarivo · tree and pragmatics
description: Since 1993, the Commune urbaine d'Antananarivo (CUA) has increasingly sought to protect and restore the city's architectural and cultural heritage. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Antananarivo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Antananarivo, sentence 158

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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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Since 1993, the Commune urbaine d'Antananarivo (CUA) has increasingly sought to protect and restore the city's architectural and cultural heritage.

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**What happens:** seek, protect, restore · **To what, where:** Commune urbaine, architectural heritage

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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: 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:158
# text = Since 1993, the Commune urbaine d'Antananarivo (CUA) has increasingly sought to protect and restore the city's architectural and cultural heritage.
1	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1993	1993	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Commune	Commune	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	urbaine	urbaine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	d'Antananarivo	d'Antananarivo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	CUA	CUA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	increasingly	increasingly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	restore	restore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	architectural	architectural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	heritage	heritage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | present · perfect · passive |  | the Commune urbaine |  |  | since 1993 | increasingly *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **protect** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **restore** | infinitive |  | the city's architectural heritage |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent heritage=Theme |

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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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