Malaysia, sentence 8
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.
Following three years of occupation, Malaya was briefly unified as the Malayan Union in 1946 until 1948 when it was restructured as the Federation of Malaya.
What happens: follow, unify, restructure · To what, where: 1946, Union
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: 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 | Following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 Malaya | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Following | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 occupation | case |
| 5 | occupation | occupation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 years | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Following | punct |
| 7 | Malaya | Malaya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 unified | obl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 unified | aux:pass |
| 9 | briefly | briefly | ADV | _ | 10 unified | advmod |
| 10 | unified | unify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 Union | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Union | det |
| 13 | Malayan | Malayan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Union | compound |
| 14 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 unified | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 1946 | case |
| 16 | 1946 | 1946 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 unified | obl |
| 17 | until | until | ADP | _ | 18 1948 | case |
| 18 | 1948 | 1948 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 1946 | nmod |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 restructured | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 restructured | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 restructured | aux:pass |
| 22 | restructured | restructure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 unified | advcl |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 Federation | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Federation | det |
| 25 | Federation | Federation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 restructured | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Malaya | case |
| 27 | Malaya | Malaya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Federation | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 unified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | year | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | unify | past · passive | 1946 until 1948 | follow Malaya; as the Malayan Union; briefly property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | restructure | past · passive | Union | as the Federation of Malaya | tree rules |
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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