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title: The two parts of Malaysia, separated from each other by the South Ch… — Malaysia · tree and pragmatics
description: The two parts of Malaysia, separated from each other by the South China Sea, share a largely similar landscape in that both Peninsular and East Malaysia feature coastal plains rising to hills and mountains. Who acts: two parts, that, coastal plains. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malaysia» with its depe
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# Malaysia, sentence 223

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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 two parts of Malaysia, separated from each other by the South China Sea, share a largely similar landscape in that both Peninsular and East Malaysia feature coastal plains rising to hills and mountains.

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**Who acts:** two parts, that, coastal plains · **What happens:** separate, share, feature, rise · **To what, where:** two parts, similar landscape, coastal plains, hills

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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 (two parts, that, coastal plains), 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:223
# text = The two parts of Malaysia, separated from each other by the South China Sea, share a largely similar landscape in that both Peninsular and East Malaysia feature coastal plains rising to hills and mountains.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Malaysia	Malaysia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	7	obl	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	fixed	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	landscape	landscape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	nsubj	_	_
24	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	Peninsular	Peninsular	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	Malaysia	Malaysia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
29	feature	feature	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
30	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **separate** | participle |  | the two parts of Malaysia *not said here* |  |  |  | by the South China Sea; from each | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from each=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **share** | present | the two parts of Malaysia | a similar landscape |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **feature** | present | that | coastal plains |  |  |  | both Peninsular and East *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **rise** | gerund | coastal plains *not said here* |  |  | hills and mountains |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial\_Location |

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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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