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title: In 1850, the English ethnologist George Samuel Windsor Earl, writing… — Malaysia · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1850, the English ethnologist George Samuel Windsor Earl, writing in the Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia, proposed naming the islands of Southeast Asia as "Melayunesia" or "Indunesia", favouring the former. Who acts: George. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malaysia» with its depende
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# Malaysia, sentence 41

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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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In 1850, the English ethnologist George Samuel Windsor Earl, writing in the Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia, proposed naming the islands of Southeast Asia as "Melayunesia" or "Indunesia", favouring the former.

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**Who acts:** George · **What happens:** write, propose, name, favour · **To what, where:** Journal, 1850, islands, former

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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 (George), 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:41
# text = In 1850, the English ethnologist George Samuel Windsor Earl, writing in the Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia, proposed naming the islands of Southeast Asia as "Melayunesia" or "Indunesia", favouring the former.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1850	1850	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ethnologist	ethnologist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:desc	_	_
7	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
8	Samuel	Samuel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	Windsor	Windsor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
10	Earl	Earl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	writing	write	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Journal	Journal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Archipelago	Archipelago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	Eastern	Eastern	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	22	compound	_	_
22	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
24	proposed	propose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	naming	name	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	xcomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Southeast	Southeast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Melayunesia	Melayunesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Indunesia	Indunesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	favouring	favour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	conj	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | gerund | George  the English ethnologist *not said here* |  |  | the Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **propose** | past | George  the English ethnologist |  |  | 1850 |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **name** | gerund | George  the English ethnologist *not said here* | the islands of Southeast Asia |  |  |  | as Melayunesia or Indunesia | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent island=Theme as melayunesia=Attribute |
| 4 | **favour** | gerund | George  the English ethnologist *not said here* | the former |  |  |  |  | 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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