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title: Mutharika expelled the ambassador, and in July 2011 the UK announced… — Malawi · tree and pragmatics
description: Mutharika expelled the ambassador, and in July 2011 the UK announced that it was suspending all budgetary aid because of Mutharika's lack of response to criticisms of his government and economic mismanagement. Who acts: Mutharika, UK, ambassador. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malawi» with its dependenc
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# Malawi, sentence 105

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From Wikipedia, [«Malawi»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malawi), 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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Mutharika expelled the ambassador, and in July 2011 the UK announced that it was suspending all budgetary aid because of Mutharika's lack of response to criticisms of his government and economic mismanagement.

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**Who acts:** Mutharika, UK, ambassador · **What happens:** expel, announce, suspend, lack · **To what, where:** ambassador, budgetary aid, response · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Malawi». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mutharika, UK, ambassador), 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:Malawi:105
# text = Mutharika expelled the ambassador, and in July 2011 the UK announced that it was suspending all budgetary aid because of Mutharika's lack of response to criticisms of his government and economic mismanagement.
1	Mutharika	Mutharika	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	expelled	expel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ambassador	ambassador	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
9	2011	2011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	suspending	suspend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
18	budgetary	budgetary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	24	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	Mutharika	Mutharika	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	criticisms	criticism	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	mismanagement	mismanagement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **expel** | past | Mutharika | the ambassador |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ambassador=Theme |
| 2 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | the UK |  |  |  | july |  | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **suspend** | past · progressive | ambassador | all budgetary aid |  |  |  | because Mutharika's lack of response; to criticisms of Mutharika's government and economic mismanagement | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aid=Theme |
| 4 | **lack** |  | Mutharika | response |  |  |  |  | nom lack «state transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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, «Malawi», 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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