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title: Lilongwe is located on a plateau in Central Malawi, forming part of… — Lilongwe · tree and pragmatics
description: Lilongwe is located on a plateau in Central Malawi, forming part of the East African Rift Valley situated at an altitude of 1,050 m (3,440 ft) above sea level, along Lilongwe River. Who acts: part. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lilongwe» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lilongwe, sentence 64

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From Wikipedia, [«Lilongwe»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilongwe), 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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Lilongwe is located on a plateau in Central Malawi, forming part of the East African Rift Valley situated at an altitude of 1,050 m (3,440 ft) above sea level, along Lilongwe River.

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**Who acts:** part · **What happens:** locate, form, situate · **To what, where:** Lilongwe, plateau, 3,440, altitude

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lilongwe». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (part), 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:Lilongwe:64
# text = Lilongwe is located on a plateau in Central Malawi, forming part of the East African Rift Valley situated at an altitude of 1,050 m (3,440 ft) above sea level, along Lilongwe River.
1	Lilongwe	lilongwe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	plateau	plateau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
9	Malawi	Malawi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	forming	form	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
12	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
16	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	Rift	Rift	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Valley	Valley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
19	situated	situate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	altitude	altitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	1,050	1,050	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	m	m	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	3,440	3,440	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
28	ft	ft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
30	above	above	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	along	along	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	Lilongwe	Lilongwe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **locate** | present · passive |  | Lilongwe |  | a plateau in Central Malawi |  | along Lilongwe River | tree rules |
| 2 | **form** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **situate** | past | part of the East African Rift Valley | 3,440  ft |  | a altitude of 1,050 m |  | above sea level | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at altitude=Destination |

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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, «Lilongwe», 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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