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title: In 1953, Britain linked Nyasaland with Northern and Southern Rhodesi… — Malawi · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1953, Britain linked Nyasaland with Northern and Southern Rhodesia in what was the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, often called the Central African Federation (CAF), for mainly political reasons. Who acts: Britain. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malawi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malawi, sentence 42

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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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In 1953, Britain linked Nyasaland with Northern and Southern Rhodesia in what was the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, often called the Central African Federation (CAF), for mainly political reasons.

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**Who acts:** Britain · **What happens:** link, be, call · **To what, where:** Nyasaland, 1953, Federation · **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 (Britain), 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:42
# text = In 1953, Britain linked Nyasaland with Northern and Southern Rhodesia in what was the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, often called the Central African Federation (CAF), for mainly political reasons.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1953	1953	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	linked	link	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Nyasaland	Nyasaland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	Northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	Rhodesia	Rhodesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nmod	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Federation	Federation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Rhodesia	Rhodesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Nyasaland	Nyasaland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	often	often	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	Central	Central	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	African	African	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Federation	Federation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	CAF	CAF	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **link** | past | Britain | Nyasaland |  | 1953 |  | with Northern Rhodesia | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent nyasaland=Patient with rhodesia=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the Federation and Nyasaland |  |  |  | of Rhodesia; Nyasaland *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | the Central African Federation *xcomp*; political reasons *conj*; often *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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