Malawi, sentence 277
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.
Over the past century, ethnic distinctions have diminished to the point where there is no significant inter-ethnic friction, although regional divisions still occur.
Who acts: ethnic distinctions, significant ethnic friction, regional divisions · What happens: diminish, be, occur
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 (ethnic distinctions, significant ethnic friction, regional divisions), 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 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 4 century | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 century | det |
| 3 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 century | amod |
| 4 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 diminished | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 century | punct |
| 6 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 distinctions | amod |
| 7 | distinctions | distinction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 diminished | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 diminished | aux |
| 9 | diminished | diminish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 point | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 point | det |
| 12 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 diminished | obl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 is | advmod |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 is | expl |
| 15 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 point | acl:relcl |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 friction | det |
| 17 | significant | significant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 friction | amod |
| 18 | inter | inter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ethnic | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 inter | punct |
| 20 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 friction | amod |
| 21 | friction | friction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 is | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 occur | punct |
| 23 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 27 occur | mark |
| 24 | regional | regional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 divisions | amod |
| 25 | divisions | division | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 occur | nsubj |
| 26 | still | still | ADV | _ | 27 occur | advmod |
| 27 | occur | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 diminished | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 diminished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | diminish | present · perfect | ethnic distinctions | century | to the point | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | be | present | no significant ethnic friction | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | occur | present | regional divisions | still | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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