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title: There are at least 14 types of traditional drums. — Malaysia · tree and pragmatics
description: There are at least 14 types of traditional drums. Who acts: 14 types. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malaysia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malaysia, sentence 429

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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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There are at least 14 types of traditional drums.

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**Who acts:** 14 types · **What happens:** be, type · **To what, where:** traditional drums

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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 (14 types), 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:429
# text = There are at least 14 types of traditional drums.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	nmod	_	_
5	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	types	type	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | 14 types of traditional drums |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **type** |  |  | traditional drums |  |  |  |  | nom type «cognition 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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