Malawi, sentence 35

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 Portuguese government was also interested in the area, so, to prevent Portuguese occupation, the British government sent Harry Johnston as consul with instructions to make treaties with local rulers beyond Portuguese jurisdiction.

Who acts: Portuguese government, British government · What happens: be, prevent, send, make · To what, where: area, Portuguese occupation, Harry, treaties

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 (Portuguese government, British government), 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	3 government	det
2	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 government	amod
3	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 interested	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 interested	cop
5	also	also	ADV	_	6 interested	advmod
6	interested	interested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 area	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 area	det
9	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 interested	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 prevent	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 prevent	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 prevent	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 prevent	mark
14	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 interested	conj
15	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 occupation	amod
16	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 prevent	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sent	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 government	det
19	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 government	amod
20	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sent	nsubj
21	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 prevent	parataxis
22	Harry	Harry	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 sent	obj
23	Johnston	Johnston	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Harry	flat
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 consul	case
25	consul	consul	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sent	obl
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 instructions	case
27	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sent	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 make	mark
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sent	advcl
30	treaties	treaty	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 make	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 rulers	case
32	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 rulers	amod
33	rulers	ruler	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 make	obl
34	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	36 jurisdiction	case
35	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 jurisdiction	amod
36	jurisdiction	jurisdiction	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 rulers	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 interested	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Portuguese government		the area	interested property	tree rules
2	prevent	to-infinitive	the Portuguese government not said here	Portuguese occupation			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer occupation=Theme
3	send	past	the British government	Harry		as consul; with instructions	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harry=Theme
4	make	to-infinitive	the British government not said here	treaties		with local rulers beyond Portuguese jurisdiction	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset treaty=Product

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Malawi», 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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Malawi, sentence 35