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title: Mayors (or presidents for municipal and district councils) and counc… — Malaysia · tree and pragmatics
description: Mayors (or presidents for municipal and district councils) and councillors are appointed by the respective state governments, or in the case of the federal territories, by the federal government. Who acts: respective state governments. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malaysia» with its dependency tree an
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# Malaysia, sentence 152

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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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Mayors (or presidents for municipal and district councils) and councillors are appointed by the respective state governments, or in the case of the federal territories, by the federal government.

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**Who acts:** respective state governments · **What happens:** appoint · **To what, where:** Mayors, case

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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 (respective state governments), 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:152
# text = Mayors (or presidents for municipal and district councils) and councillors are appointed by the respective state governments, or in the case of the federal territories, by the federal government.
1	Mayors	mayor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	presidents	president	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	municipal	municipal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	district	district	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	councils	council	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	councillors	councillor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	respective	respective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	governments	government	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	federal	federal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	territories	territory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	federal	federal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** | present · passive | the respective state governments | Mayors and councillors |  | the case of the federal territories |  | by the federal government | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

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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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