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title: Under Ravalomanana, construction in the capital increased sharply; t… — Antananarivo · tree and pragmatics
description: Under Ravalomanana, construction in the capital increased sharply; twelve new supermarkets were constructed in two years. Who acts: construction. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Antananarivo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Antananarivo, sentence 192

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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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Under Ravalomanana, construction in the capital increased sharply; twelve new supermarkets were constructed in two years.

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**Who acts:** construction · **What happens:** increase, construct · **To what, where:** Ravalomanana, twelve new supermarkets

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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 (construction), 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:192
# text = Under Ravalomanana, construction in the capital increased sharply; twelve new supermarkets were constructed in two years.
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Ravalomanana	Ravalomanana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	increased	increase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	sharply	sharply	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	supermarkets	supermarket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	constructed	construct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **increase** | past | construction in the capital |  |  | Ravalomanana |  | sharply *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **construct** | past · passive |  | twelve new supermarkets |  |  | year |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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