Malawi, sentence 105
From Wikipedia, «Malawi», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Mutharika expelled the ambassador, and in July 2011 the UK announced that it was suspending all budgetary aid because of Mutharika's lack of response to criticisms of his government and economic mismanagement.
Who acts: Mutharika, UK, ambassador · What happens: expel, announce, suspend, lack · To what, where: ambassador, budgetary aid, response · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Malawi». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mutharika, UK, ambassador), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mutharika | Mutharika | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 expelled | nsubj |
| 2 | expelled | expel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ambassador | det |
| 4 | ambassador | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 expelled | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 announced | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 announced | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 July | case |
| 8 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 announced | obl |
| 9 | 2011 | 2011 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 July | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 UK | det |
| 11 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 announced | nsubj |
| 12 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 expelled | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 suspending | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 suspending | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 suspending | aux |
| 16 | suspending | suspend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 announced | ccomp |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 aid | det |
| 18 | budgetary | budgetary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 aid | amod |
| 19 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 suspending | obj |
| 20 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 24 lack | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 because | fixed |
| 22 | Mutharika | Mutharika | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 lack | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 Mutharika | case |
| 24 | lack | lack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 suspending | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 response | case |
| 26 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lack | nmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 criticisms | case |
| 28 | criticisms | criticism | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 suspending | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 government | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 government | nmod:poss |
| 31 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 criticisms | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 mismanagement | cc |
| 33 | economic | economic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 mismanagement | amod |
| 34 | mismanagement | mismanagement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 government | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 expelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expel | past | Mutharika | the ambassador | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ambassador=Theme | ||||
| 2 | announce speech: other | past | the UK | july | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | suspend | past · progressive | ambassador | all budgetary aid | because Mutharika's lack of response; to criticisms of Mutharika's government and economic mismanagement | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aid=Theme | |||
| 4 | lack | Mutharika | response | nom lack «state transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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