Malawi, sentence 42
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.
In 1953, Britain linked Nyasaland with Northern and Southern Rhodesia in what was the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, often called the Central African Federation (CAF), for mainly political reasons.
Who acts: Britain · What happens: link, be, call · To what, where: Nyasaland, 1953, Federation · 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 (Britain), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1953 | case |
| 2 | 1953 | 1953 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 linked | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1953 | punct |
| 4 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 linked | nsubj |
| 5 | linked | link | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Nyasaland | Nyasaland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 linked | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 Rhodesia | case |
| 8 | Northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Rhodesia | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Southern | cc |
| 10 | Southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Northern | conj |
| 11 | Rhodesia | Rhodesia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 linked | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 what | case |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 Rhodesia | nmod |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Federation | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Federation | det |
| 16 | Federation | Federation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Rhodesia | case |
| 18 | Rhodesia | Rhodesia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Federation | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Nyasaland | cc |
| 20 | Nyasaland | Nyasaland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Federation | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 called | punct |
| 22 | often | often | ADV | _ | 23 called | advmod |
| 23 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 linked | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Federation | det |
| 25 | Central | Central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Federation | amod |
| 26 | African | African | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Federation | compound |
| 27 | Federation | Federation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 called | xcomp |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 CAF | punct |
| 29 | CAF | CAF | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Federation | appos |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 CAF | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 reasons | punct |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 reasons | case |
| 33 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 34 political | advmod |
| 34 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 reasons | amod |
| 35 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 called | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 linked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | link | past | Britain | Nyasaland | 1953 | with Northern Rhodesia | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent nyasaland=Patient with rhodesia=Co-Patient | ||
| 2 | is a | past | the Federation and Nyasaland | of Rhodesia; Nyasaland conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | the Central African Federation xcomp; political reasons conj; often property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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