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title: Federal laws assign land matters, including the delineation of distr… — Malaysia · tree and pragmatics
description: Federal laws assign land matters, including the delineation of districts, to the purview of state governments. Who acts: Federal laws, land. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malaysia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malaysia, sentence 153

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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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Federal laws assign land matters, including the delineation of districts, to the purview of state governments.

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**Who acts:** Federal laws, land · **What happens:** assign, matter, delineate · **To what, where:** districts

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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 (Federal laws, land), 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:153
# text = Federal laws assign land matters, including the delineation of districts, to the purview of state governments.
1	Federal	federal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	assign	assign	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	including	including	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	delineation	delineation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	districts	district	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	purview	purview	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	governments	government	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assign** | infinitive | Federal laws |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **matter** | present | land |  |  |  |  | including the delineation of districts and the purview of state governments | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **delineate** |  |  | districts |  |  |  |  | nom delineation «communication 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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