Malaysia, sentence 43
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.
In modern terminology, Malay remains the name of an ethnoreligious group of Austronesian people predominantly inhabiting the Malay Peninsula and portions of the adjacent islands of Southeast Asia, including the east coast of Sumatra, the coast of Borneo, and smaller islands that lie between these areas.
Who acts: Malay, smaller islands · What happens: remain, inhabit, lie, name · To what, where: name, modern terminology, Malay Peninsula, areas, ethnoreligious group
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 (Malay, smaller islands), 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 | _ | 3 terminology | case |
| 2 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 terminology | amod |
| 3 | terminology | terminology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remains | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 terminology | punct |
| 5 | Malay | Malay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 remains | nsubj |
| 6 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 name | det |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remains | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 group | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 group | det |
| 11 | ethnoreligious | ethnoreligious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 group | amod |
| 12 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 name | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 people | case |
| 14 | Austronesian | austronesian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 people | amod |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 group | nmod |
| 16 | predominantly | predominantly | ADV | _ | 17 inhabiting | advmod |
| 17 | inhabiting | inhabit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 group | appos |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Peninsula | det |
| 19 | Malay | Malay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Peninsula | compound |
| 20 | Peninsula | Peninsula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 inhabiting | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 portions | cc |
| 22 | portions | portion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Peninsula | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 islands | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 islands | det |
| 25 | adjacent | adjacent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 islands | amod |
| 26 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 portions | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Asia | case |
| 28 | Southeast | Southeast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Asia | compound |
| 29 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 islands | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 coast | punct |
| 31 | including | including | ADP | _ | 34 coast | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 coast | det |
| 33 | east | east | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 coast | amod |
| 34 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Asia | appos |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Sumatra | case |
| 36 | Sumatra | Sumatra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 coast | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 coast | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 coast | det |
| 39 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Asia | appos |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 Borneo | case |
| 41 | Borneo | Borneo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 coast | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 islands | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 islands | cc |
| 44 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 45 islands | amod |
| 45 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 remains | obl |
| 46 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 lie | nsubj |
| 47 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 islands | acl:relcl |
| 48 | between | between | ADP | _ | 50 areas | case |
| 49 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 50 areas | det |
| 50 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 lie | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 remains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | present | Malay | the name of a ethnoreligious group of Austronesian people | modern terminology | smaller islands obl | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme name=Attribute | ||
| 2 | inhabit | gerund | the Malay Peninsula and portions of the adjacent islands of Southeast Asia | predominantly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lie | present | smaller islands | this areas | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between area=Location | ||||
| 4 | name | a ethnoreligious group of Austronesian people | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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