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description: In modern terminology, Malay remains the name of an ethnoreligious group of Austronesian people predominantly inhabiting the Malay Peninsula and portions of the adjacent islands of Southeast Asia, including the east coast of Sumatra, the coast of Borneo, and smaller islands that lie between these ar
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# Malaysia, sentence 43

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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 modern terminology, Malay remains the name of an ethnoreligious group of Austronesian people predominantly inhabiting the Malay Peninsula and portions of the adjacent islands of Southeast Asia, including the east coast of Sumatra, the coast of Borneo, and smaller islands that lie between these areas.

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**Who acts:** Malay, smaller islands · **What happens:** remain, inhabit, lie, name · **To what, where:** name, modern terminology, Malay Peninsula, areas, ethnoreligious group

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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 (Malay, smaller islands), 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:43
# text = In modern terminology, Malay remains the name of an ethnoreligious group of Austronesian people predominantly inhabiting the Malay Peninsula and portions of the adjacent islands of Southeast Asia, including the east coast of Sumatra, the coast of Borneo, and smaller islands that lie between these areas.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	terminology	terminology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Malay	Malay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	ethnoreligious	ethnoreligious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Austronesian	austronesian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	predominantly	predominantly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	inhabiting	inhabit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	appos	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Malay	Malay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	portions	portion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	adjacent	adjacent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	Southeast	Southeast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	including	including	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	east	east	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Sumatra	Sumatra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Borneo	Borneo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	45	amod	_	_
45	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
46	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
47	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
48	between	between	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	50	det	_	_
50	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | present | Malay | the name of a ethnoreligious group of Austronesian people |  | modern terminology |  | smaller islands *obl* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme name=Attribute |
| 2 | **inhabit** | gerund |  | the Malay Peninsula and portions of the adjacent islands of Southeast Asia |  |  |  | predominantly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie** | present | smaller islands |  |  | this areas |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between area=Location |
| 4 | **name** |  |  | a ethnoreligious group of Austronesian people |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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