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title: Melayu then became associated with Srivijaya, and remained associate… — Malaysia · tree and pragmatics
description: Melayu then became associated with Srivijaya, and remained associated with various parts of Sumatra, especially Palembang, where the founder of the Malacca Sultanate is thought to have come from. Who acts: Melayu. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malaysia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malaysia, sentence 30

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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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Melayu then became associated with Srivijaya, and remained associated with various parts of Sumatra, especially Palembang, where the founder of the Malacca Sultanate is thought to have come from.

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**Who acts:** Melayu · **What happens:** become, associate, think, come · **To what, where:** founder

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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 (Melayu), 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:30
# text = Melayu then became associated with Srivijaya, and remained associated with various parts of Sumatra, especially Palembang, where the founder of the Malacca Sultanate is thought to have come from.
1	Melayu	Melayu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	associated	associated	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Srivijaya	Srivijaya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	associated	associate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Sumatra	Sumatra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	Palembang	Palembang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	founder	founder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Malacca	Malacca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Sultanate	Sultanate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux	_	_
31	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	xcomp	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Melayu |  |  |  | then | with Srivijaya; associated *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **associate** | past · passive | Melayu *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with various parts of Sumatra and Palembang | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: with part=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | the founder of the Malacca Sultanate |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | to-infinitive · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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