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title: The 13 states are based on historical Malay kingdoms, and 9 of the 1… — Malaysia · tree and pragmatics
description: The 13 states are based on historical Malay kingdoms, and 9 of the 11 Peninsular states, known as the Malay states, retain their royal families. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malaysia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malaysia, sentence 157

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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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The 13 states are based on historical Malay kingdoms, and 9 of the 11 Peninsular states, known as the Malay states, retain their royal families.

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**What happens:** base, know, retain · **To what, where:** 13 states, historical Malay kingdoms, 11 Peninsular states, royal families

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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: 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:157
# text = The 13 states are based on historical Malay kingdoms, and 9 of the 11 Peninsular states, known as the Malay states, retain their royal families.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Malay	malay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	Peninsular	Peninsular	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Malay	Malay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	retain	retain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **base** | present · passive |  | the 13 states |  | historical Malay kingdoms |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on kingdom=Source |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  | the 11 Peninsular states *not said here* |  |  |  | as the Malay states | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as state=Attribute |
| 3 | **retain** | present |  | states's royal families |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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