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title: Governance of the states is divided between the federal and the stat… — Malaysia · tree and pragmatics
description: Governance of the states is divided between the federal and the state governments, with different powers reserved for each, and the federal government has direct administration of the federal territories. Who acts: different powers, federal government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malaysia» with its d
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# Malaysia, sentence 144

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From Wikipedia, [«Malaysia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia), 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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Governance of the states is divided between the federal and the state governments, with different powers reserved for each, and the federal government has direct administration of the federal territories.

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**Who acts:** different powers, federal government · **What happens:** divide, reserve, have, administer · **To what, where:** Governance, direct administration, federal territories

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Malaysia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (different powers, federal government), 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:Malaysia:144
# text = Governance of the states is divided between the federal and the state governments, with different powers reserved for each, and the federal government has direct administration of the federal territories.
1	Governance	governance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	federal	federal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	governments	government	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	reserved	reserve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	federal	federal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
27	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	federal	federal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	territories	territory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divide** | present · passive |  | Governance of the states |  |  |  | between the federal and the state governments | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **reserve** | past | different powers |  |  |  |  | for each | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for each=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **have** | present | the federal government | direct administration of the federal territories |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent administration=Patient |
| 4 | **administer** |  |  | the federal territories |  |  |  |  | nom administration «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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, «Malaysia», 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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