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title: The federal Constitution stipulates the three branches of the Malays… — Kuala Lumpur · tree and pragmatics
description: The federal Constitution stipulates the three branches of the Malaysian government: the Executive, Judiciary and Legislative branches. Who acts: federal Constitution. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuala Lumpur» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuala Lumpur, sentence 156

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From Wikipedia, [«Kuala Lumpur»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuala_Lumpur), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The federal Constitution stipulates the three branches of the Malaysian government: the Executive, Judiciary and Legislative branches.

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**Who acts:** federal Constitution · **What happens:** stipulate · **To what, where:** three branches

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kuala Lumpur». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (federal Constitution), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Kuala_Lumpur:156
# text = The federal Constitution stipulates the three branches of the Malaysian government: the Executive, Judiciary and Legislative branches.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	federal	federal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stipulates	stipulate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Malaysian	Malaysian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Executive	executive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Judiciary	Judiciary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	Legislative	legislative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stipulate** | present | the federal Constitution | the three branches of the Malaysian government |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Kuala Lumpur», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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