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title: Despite ongoing efforts by the Ministry of Domestic Security, crime… — Antananarivo · tree and pragmatics
description: Despite ongoing efforts by the Ministry of Domestic Security, crime has worsened in Antananarivo since 2009. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Antananarivo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Antananarivo, sentence 173

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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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Despite ongoing efforts by the Ministry of Domestic Security, crime has worsened in Antananarivo since 2009.

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**What happens:** worsen · **To what, where:** crime, Antananarivo

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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:173
# text = Despite ongoing efforts by the Ministry of Domestic Security, crime has worsened in Antananarivo since 2009.
1	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	ongoing	ongoing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Ministry	Ministry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Security	Security	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	worsened	worsen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Antananarivo	Antananarivo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	since	since	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **worsen** | present · perfect · passive |  | crime |  | Antananarivo | since 2009 | despite ongoing efforts by the Ministry of Domestic Security | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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