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# Antananarivo, sentence 58

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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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The growing number of Christians in Imerina prompted the construction of stone churches throughout the highlands, as well as four memorial churches on key sites of martyrdom among early Malagasy Christians under the reign of Ranavalona I.

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**Who acts:** growing number · **What happens:** grow, prompt, construct · **To what, where:** construction, reign, stone churches

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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 (growing number), 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:58
# text = The growing number of Christians in Imerina prompted the construction of stone churches throughout the highlands, as well as four memorial churches on key sites of martyrdom among early Malagasy Christians under the reign of Ranavalona I.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Imerina	Imerina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	prompted	prompt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	highlands	highland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	21	advmod	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	fixed	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
21	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	memorial	memorial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	key	key	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	sites	site	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	martyrdom	martyrdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	among	among	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Malagasy	Malagasy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
33	under	under	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	reign	reign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	Ranavalona	Ranavalona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	I.	I.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **prompt** | past | the growing number | the construction of stone churches |  | the reign of Ranavalona I. | throughout the highlands | four memorial churches on key sites of martyrdom among Malagasy Christians *obl*; Christians in Imerina *nsubj* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition construction=Patient |
| 3 | **construct** |  |  | stone churches |  |  |  |  | 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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