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title: According to the 2024 V-Dem Democracy indices, Malawi is ranked 74th… — Malawi · tree and pragmatics
description: According to the 2024 V-Dem Democracy indices, Malawi is ranked 74th electoral democracy worldwide and 11th electoral democracy in Africa. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malawi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malawi, sentence 15

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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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According to the 2024 V-Dem Democracy indices, Malawi is ranked 74th electoral democracy worldwide and 11th electoral democracy in Africa.

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**What happens:** accord, rank · **To what, where:** Malawi

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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: 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:15
# text = According to the 2024 V-Dem Democracy indices, Malawi is ranked 74th electoral democracy worldwide and 11th electoral democracy in Africa.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
4	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	V	v	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Dem	Dem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	Democracy	democracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	indices	index	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	Malawi	Malawi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	ranked	rank	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	74th	74th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
15	electoral	electoral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	democracy	democracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	worldwide	worldwide	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	11th	11th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	electoral	electoral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	democracy	democracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rank** | present · passive |  | Malawi |  |  |  | accord the Dem Democracy indices  2024 V; 74th electoral democracy *obj*; 11th electoral democracy in Africa *conj*; worldwide *property* | 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, «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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