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title: Female participation in politics is further restricted by gatekeeper… — Malawi · tree and pragmatics
description: Female participation in politics is further restricted by gatekeepers, who provide access to the resources needed to win elections and maintain seats in parliament. Who acts: gatekeepers, resources. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malawi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malawi, sentence 223

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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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Female participation in politics is further restricted by gatekeepers, who provide access to the resources needed to win elections and maintain seats in parliament.

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**Who acts:** gatekeepers, resources · **What happens:** restrict, provide, need, win, maintain · **To what, where:** Female participation, access, elections, seats, parliament

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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 (gatekeepers, resources), 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:223
# text = Female participation in politics is further restricted by gatekeepers, who provide access to the resources needed to win elections and maintain seats in parliament.
1	Female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	participation	participation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	politics	politics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	further	further	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	restricted	restrict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	gatekeepers	gatekeeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	provide	provide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	access	access	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	maintain	maintain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
23	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **restrict** | present · passive | gatekeepers | Female participation in politics |  |  |  | further *property* | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Patient |
| 2 | **provide** | present | gatekeepers | access |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition access=Theme |
| 3 | **need** | past | the resources |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **win** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the resources *not said here* | elections |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent election=Eventuality |
| 5 | **maintain** | present | the resources *not said here* | seats |  | parliament |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent seat=Theme |

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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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