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title: Much of this marginal land has been illegally occupied and developed… — Antananarivo · tree and pragmatics
description: Much of this marginal land has been illegally occupied and developed by land-seeking residents, creating shantytown slums in pockets throughout the lower portions of the city. Who acts: Much. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Antananarivo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Antananarivo, sentence 184

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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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Much of this marginal land has been illegally occupied and developed by land-seeking residents, creating shantytown slums in pockets throughout the lower portions of the city.

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**Who acts:** Much · **What happens:** be, develop, seek, create · **To what, where:** shantytown slums, pockets

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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 (Much), 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:184
# text = Much of this marginal land has been illegally occupied and developed by land-seeking residents, creating shantytown slums in pockets throughout the lower portions of the city.
1	Much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	marginal	marginal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
8	illegally	illegally	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	occupied	occupied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	developed	develop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	creating	create	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
19	shantytown	shantytown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	slums	slum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	pockets	pocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
26	portions	portion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · perfect | Much of this marginal land |  |  |  |  | illegally, occupied *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **develop** | participle | Much of this marginal land *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by seeking residents | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by resident=Location |
| 3 | **seek** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | land *compound* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **create** | gerund | Much of this marginal land *not said here* | shantytown slums |  | pockets | throughout the lower portions of the city |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slum=Result |

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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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