---
title: The protests left 18 people dead and at least 44 others suffering fr… — Malawi · tree and pragmatics
description: The protests left 18 people dead and at least 44 others suffering from gunshot wounds. Who acts: protests, 44 others. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malawi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Malawi/61/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Malawi](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Malawi/) / 61

# Malawi, sentence 61

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The protests left 18 people dead and at least 44 others suffering from gunshot wounds.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** protests, 44 others · **What happens:** leave, suffer · **To what, where:** 18 people, gunshot wounds

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (protests, 44 others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:61
# text = The protests left 18 people dead and at least 44 others suffering from gunshot wounds.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	protests	protest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	nmod	_	_
10	44	44	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
12	suffering	suffer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	gunshot	gunshot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | the protests | 18 people |  |  |  | 44 others *conj*; dead *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 2 | **suffer** | gerund | 44 others *not said here* |  |  | gunshot wounds |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Malawi/60/)
- next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Malawi/62/)
- ↑ back to [Malawi](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Malawi/)