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# Antananarivo, sentence 38

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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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Numerous fady (taboos), including injunctions against the construction of wooden houses by non-nobles and the presence of swine within the city limits, were imposed.

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**What happens:** impose, construct · **To what, where:** wooden houses

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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:38
# text = Numerous fady (taboos), including injunctions against the construction of wooden houses by non-nobles and the presence of swine within the city limits, were imposed.
1	Numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fady	fady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	parataxis	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	taboos	taboo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	including	including	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	injunctions	injunction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
9	against	against	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	non-nobles	non-noble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	swine	swine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	within	within	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	imposed	impose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **impose** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | including injunctions against the construction of wooden houses by non-nobles and the presence of swine; within the city limits | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S» |
| 2 | **construct** |  |  | wooden houses by non-nobles |  |  |  |  | nom construction «act transitive»: of=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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