Malaysia, sentence 51
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.
Traders and settlers from India and China arrived as early as the first century AD, establishing trading ports and coastal towns in the second and third centuries.
Who acts: Traders · What happens: arrive, establish · To what, where: trading ports
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 (Traders), 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 | Traders | trader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 arrived | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 settlers | cc |
| 3 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Traders | conj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 India | case |
| 5 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Traders | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 China | cc |
| 7 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 India | conj |
| 8 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 early | advmod |
| 10 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 arrived | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 AD | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 AD | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 AD | amod |
| 14 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 AD | compound |
| 15 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arrived | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 establishing | punct |
| 17 | establishing | establish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 arrived | advcl |
| 18 | trading | trading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ports | compound |
| 19 | ports | port | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 establishing | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 towns | cc |
| 21 | coastal | coastal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 towns | amod |
| 22 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 ports | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 centuries | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 centuries | det |
| 25 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 28 centuries | amod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 third | cc |
| 27 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 second | conj |
| 28 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 establishing | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Traders from India and China and settlers | as the first century AD; early property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | establish | gerund | Traders from India and China and settlers not said here | trading ports and coastal towns | century | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent port=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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