Malawi, sentence 273
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.
The Malawi Air Force was established with German help in 1976, and operates a small number of transport aircraft and multi-purpose helicopters.
What happens: establish, operate · To what, where: Malawi Air Force, 1976, small number
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Force | det |
| 2 | Malawi | Malawi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Force | compound |
| 3 | Air | Air | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Force | compound |
| 4 | Force | Force | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 established | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 established | aux:pass |
| 6 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 help | case |
| 8 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 help | amod |
| 9 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 established | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1976 | case |
| 11 | 1976 | 1976 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 established | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 operates | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 operates | cc |
| 14 | operates | operate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 established | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 number | det |
| 16 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 number | amod |
| 17 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 operates | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 aircraft | case |
| 19 | transport | transport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 aircraft | compound |
| 20 | aircraft | aircraft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 number | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 helicopters | cc |
| 22 | multi-purpose | multi-purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 helicopters | compound |
| 23 | helicopters | helicopter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 aircraft | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 established | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | establish | past · passive | the Malawi Air Force | 1976 | with German help | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme with help=Source | |||
| 2 | operate | present | a small number of transport aircraft and multi-purpose helicopters | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Theme number=Attribute |
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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