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title: Malawian cuisine is diverse, with tea and fish being popular feature… — Malawi · tree and pragmatics
description: Malawian cuisine is diverse, with tea and fish being popular features of the country's cuisine. Who acts: Malawian cuisine, tea. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malawi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malawi, sentence 297

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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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Malawian cuisine is diverse, with tea and fish being popular features of the country's cuisine.

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**Who acts:** Malawian cuisine, tea · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** popular features

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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 (Malawian cuisine, tea), 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:297
# text = Malawian cuisine is diverse, with tea and fish being popular features of the country's cuisine.
1	Malawian	malawian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cuisine	cuisine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	diverse	diverse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
11	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	cuisine	cuisine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Malawian cuisine |  |  |  |  | diverse *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | gerund | tea and fish | popular features |  |  |  | of the country's cuisine | 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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