Malaysia, sentence 152
From Wikipedia, «Malaysia», 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.
Mayors (or presidents for municipal and district councils) and councillors are appointed by the respective state governments, or in the case of the federal territories, by the federal government.
Who acts: respective state governments · What happens: appoint · To what, where: Mayors, case
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Malaysia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (respective state governments), 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 | Mayors | mayor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 appointed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 presidents | punct |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 presidents | cc |
| 4 | presidents | president | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Mayors | appos |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 councils | case |
| 6 | municipal | municipal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 councils | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 district | cc |
| 8 | district | district | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 municipal | conj |
| 9 | councils | council | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 presidents | nmod |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 presidents | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 councillors | cc |
| 12 | councillors | councillor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Mayors | conj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 appointed | aux:pass |
| 14 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 governments | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 governments | det |
| 17 | respective | respective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 governments | amod |
| 18 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 governments | compound |
| 19 | governments | government | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 appointed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 case | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 case | cc |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 case | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 case | det |
| 24 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appointed | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 territories | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 territories | det |
| 27 | federal | federal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 territories | amod |
| 28 | territories | territory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 case | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 government | punct |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 government | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 government | det |
| 32 | federal | federal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 government | amod |
| 33 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appointed | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | present · passive | the respective state governments | Mayors and councillors | the case of the federal territories | by the federal government | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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