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title: Its men's national team has failed to qualify for a World Cup but ha… — Malawi · tree and pragmatics
description: Its men's national team has failed to qualify for a World Cup but has made three appearances in the Africa Cup of Nations. Who acts: national team. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malawi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malawi, sentence 293

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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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Its men's national team has failed to qualify for a World Cup but has made three appearances in the Africa Cup of Nations.

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**Who acts:** national team · **What happens:** fail, not qualify, make · **To what, where:** three appearances, Africa Cup

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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 (national team), 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:293
# text = Its men's national team has failed to qualify for a World Cup but has made three appearances in the Africa Cup of Nations.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	failed	fail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	qualify	qualify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Cup	Cup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
17	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	appearances	appearance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Cup	Cup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fail** | present · perfect | team's men's national team |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **qualify** | to-infinitive | team's men's national team *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a World Cup | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | present · perfect | team's men's national team *not said here* | three appearances |  | the Africa Cup of Nations |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset appearance=Product |

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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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